Following a pre-trial review hearing held today at Bristol Crown Court, a trial date has been set in the prosecution of two companies charged with health and safety offences at a nuclear construction site.
Two further charges were added to the indictment at today's court hearing, bringing the total of charges to four.
The organisations face a charge of failing to plan, manage and monitor construction work without risks to health and safety contravening Regulation 15(2) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and previously entered not guilty pleas at a hearing held in December 2025.
An additional charge that Laing O'Rourke Delivery Limited and Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS both failed to conduct a suitable and sufficient risk assessment of the risks to the health and safety of their employees, under Regulation 3 (1) (a) of the Management of Health and Safety At Work Regulations 1999, contravening Section 33(1)(c) of the Act has now also been added. Both organisations have pleaded not guilty to these charges.
The two contractors are the joint venture partners in BYLOR JV, delivering the main civil engineering works at HPC.
A trial date has been set for 13 October 2027 at Bristol Crown Court.
The charges relate to an incident which occurred on 20 August, 2022 in a pre-fabrication yard at the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear construction site near Bridgwater in Somerset.
An employee, Paul Dunne, who worked for BYLOR Services Ltd, as a slinger, sustained serious injuries in a pre-fabrication yard when a wall of rebar mesh fell upon him as he was working to remove the wall from a vertical jig to be transferred to another part of the site.
Given that matters are now subject to legal proceedings, we are unable to comment further at this time