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Tesco Warfield: Supermarket fined after boy electrocuted | Bracknell News
TESCO has been fined more than half-a-million pounds after a ten-year-old child got electrocuted at the retailer’s Bracknell North superstore.
The supermarket giant will have to pay £536,000 after pleading guilty to two health and safety offences related to an incident in July 2017 at their store on County Lane in Warfield.
After reaching into a freezer to get an ice lolly, the child started screaming and crying having been electrocuted by the unit.
He suffered a small minor burn, pain down his right leg, chest pain and was shaken.
This came after staff failed to fix an issue with the electrical supply to the glass heating element under the handrail at the front of the freezer.
The Public Protection Partnership, the investigating body, said the supply had become damaged and exposed, leaving a severed live wire sticking out under the rub rail.
Subsequent reviews of records showed the freezer’s rail was known to be loose and had temporary fixes of glue or tape some months prior to the accident.
Cllr John Harrison, Public Protection boss at Bracknell Forest Council, said: “This investigation which followed an incident where a child was electrocuted in the store revealed significant breaches of health and safety legislation and this is clearly reflected in the sentencing.
Tesco Warfield: Supermarket fined after boy electrocuted | Bracknell News
TESCO has been fined more than half-a-million pounds after a ten-year-old child got electrocuted at the retailer’s Bracknell North superstore.
The supermarket giant will have to pay £536,000 after pleading guilty to two health and safety offences related to an incident in July 2017 at their store on County Lane in Warfield.
After reaching into a freezer to get an ice lolly, the child started screaming and crying having been electrocuted by the unit.
He suffered a small minor burn, pain down his right leg, chest pain and was shaken.
This came after staff failed to fix an issue with the electrical supply to the glass heating element under the handrail at the front of the freezer.
The Public Protection Partnership, the investigating body, said the supply had become damaged and exposed, leaving a severed live wire sticking out under the rub rail.
Subsequent reviews of records showed the freezer’s rail was known to be loose and had temporary fixes of glue or tape some months prior to the accident.
Cllr John Harrison, Public Protection boss at Bracknell Forest Council, said: “This investigation which followed an incident where a child was electrocuted in the store revealed significant breaches of health and safety legislation and this is clearly reflected in the sentencing.
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