A Tarn company manager was found guilty of the death of his employee, who fell from a basket in October 2019, reports France Bleu Occitanie on Thursday.
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A business manager from Tarn was sentenced to three months in prison by the Albi criminal court for security breaches after the death of one of his employees on October 10, 2019, reports France Bleu Occitanie on Thursday 13th. January. His company was sentenced to a fine of 10,000 euros, of which 5,000 were suspended.
This 57-year-old man was working on a site in Almayrac, to remove the roof and the frame of a hangar, without being tied up, without wearing a helmet, and fell from a nacelle that was not up to standard.
During the trial on November 25, 2021, the lawyer for the head of the company, Maître Philippe Pressecq, requested the release of his client and considered that “the death of the victim [découlait] in reality of his refusal to wear the helmet and the harness even though this equipment was at his disposal and the instructions [du patron] were good to wear them “.