Construction Worker handed down 9 months suspended jail sentence for misuse of work vehicle

On 23 May 2023, in Bray Circuit Court, Judge Patrick Quinn fined a Co. Wicklow construction worker and handed out 9 months suspended jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to Regulation 29(1)(f) of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations, 2013, that on the 8 December 2016, he failed to make proper use of a large 9-tonne site dumper. The construction worker had driven the dumper whilst carrying two passengers. The dumper was not designed to carry passengers, and, in so doing, also failed to take reasonable care to protect the safety, health and welfare of other persons who may be affected by his acts. One of the passengers fell from the moving dumper causing him life-changing injures.