Investigation after sign falls on pram
Falling signage can, and has, been fatal to passers-by, but a baby had a lucky escape after a shop sign fell 20ft onto its pram in a shocking incident that is now being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Thursday, 18 Aug 2016 09:37 GMT
The HSE is investigating after a shop sign fell 20ft onto a baby’s pram
Thankfully the infant suffered only minor injuries when an opticians’ sign fell to the ground in Newport, and the probe by the HSE will review whether health and safety regulations were breached.
The HSE comments: “We are investigating this incident and we have had discussions with the local authority. The investigations are ongoing, we are looking into what happened.
“We need to establish the circumstances and see what happened, if there are any breaches of health and safety. These investigations take as long as they need to, there is no time limit.”
In recent years, a 27-year-old man was killed by a falling sign in London, and the events leading up to his death were described as a ‘catalogue of errors’ and ‘an accident waiting to happen’ following an inquest, and a 68-year-old woman was killed after a book shop sign fell in Blackpool, where an investigation found that failures over three decades contributed to the incident.
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