{"id":798759,"date":"2026-10-11T03:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798759\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T03:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:36:09","slug":"bangor-worker-paralysed-after-falling-30ft-wins-10m-from-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798759\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangor worker paralysed after falling 30ft wins \u00a310m from employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cheshire-based firm was fined \u00a3240,000 at a magistrates&#8217; court hearing in 2024 over the HSE&#8217;s findings, before facing High Court proceedings brought by Pugh, from Bangor, Gwynedd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">HSE inspector Robert Gidman told the court the &#8220;tragic incident&#8221; could have been prevented if the company had &#8220;adequate arrangements to protect its workers from harm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pylon in Staffordshire had already been worked on by others, with a nut left loose, but this was not something Pugh knew about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Proper assessment of the risks and consideration of work methods, adequate staffing and clear procedures for transferring towers between teams could have enabled this work to go ahead without incident,&#8221; Gidman added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Instead, because of the company&#8217;s shortcomings, a worker has sadly and unnecessarily been left paralysed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After out-of-court negotiations, a care and compensation package was agreed, described by Pugh&#8217;s lawyers as worth &#8220;eight figures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The money was compensation for his injuries and lost future earnings, as well as to help fund 24-hour live-in carers and more than \u00a31m in rehabilitation costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cheshire-based firm was fined \u00a3240,000 at a magistrates&#8217; court hearing in 2024 over the HSE&#8217;s findings, before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}