A date has been set for the trial of three companies charged with health and safety offences following a worker fatality at a nuclear construction site.
NNB Generation Company (HPC) Ltd (NNB GenCo), Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS and Laing O’Rourke Delivery Limited appeared at Bristol Crown Court this afternoon for a pre-trial preparation hearing.
It relates to an incident at Hinkley Point C (HPC) near Bridgwater, Somerset, on 13 November 2022 when site supervisor Jason Waring, 48, died in a construction incident after sustaining fatal injuries.
A trial date has been scheduled for 17 January, 2028, at Bristol Crown Court, which is expected to last between four and six weeks.
(Jason Waring, 48)
At a previous hearing in December, principal contractor NNB Generation Company (HPC) Ltd (NNB GenCo) entered a not guilty plea to failing to plan, manage and monitor the construction phase and co-ordinate matters relating to health and safety during the construction phase to ensure that work was carried out without risks to health and safety, contravening Regulation 13(1) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS and Laing O’Rourke Delivery Limited - the two companies delivering the main civil engineering works at HPC - entered not guilty pleas to failing to plan, manage and monitor to ensure that construction work was carried out without risks to health and safety, contravening Regulation 15(2) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
The decision to begin legal proceedings followed an investigation by the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
No further comment can be made at this time due to the live legal proceedings.