HSE inquiry into Able accident
September 18, 2008
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is making inquiries into an accident at a dockyard in Graythorp, a source says.
A crane being used for pile-driving toppled over but its driver escaped serious injury, the Hartlepool Mail reports.
The site of the accident was the Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre, owned by Able UK.
It was recently awarded a contract for the dismantling of asbestos-contaminated French vessel Clemenceau.
A spokesperson for the HSE confirms the accident's occurrence but will provide no further information.
"The HSE are aware of the incident and further inquiries are being made… we cannot comment on specific details at this stage because we are still establishing the facts," the representative says.
Able will also be launching an investigation into the accident.
Groups such as Friends of Hartlepool have launched a high court challenge to prevent the toxic "ghost ship" Clemenceau being dismantled at the site.
Concerns about the risk of asbestos contained by ship, which the Telegraph estimates to be 700 tonnes, are a motivating factor in the opposition.
A crane being used for pile-driving toppled over but its driver escaped serious injury, the Hartlepool Mail reports.
The site of the accident was the Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre, owned by Able UK.
It was recently awarded a contract for the dismantling of asbestos-contaminated French vessel Clemenceau.
A spokesperson for the HSE confirms the accident's occurrence but will provide no further information.
"The HSE are aware of the incident and further inquiries are being made… we cannot comment on specific details at this stage because we are still establishing the facts," the representative says.
Able will also be launching an investigation into the accident.
Groups such as Friends of Hartlepool have launched a high court challenge to prevent the toxic "ghost ship" Clemenceau being dismantled at the site.
Concerns about the risk of asbestos contained by ship, which the Telegraph estimates to be 700 tonnes, are a motivating factor in the opposition.
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