Human error caused building incident
Human error was responsible for a potentially lethal incident on the building site of Durham Towers on Wednesday, according to the Labour Department, a building inspector, and the construe- • tion company. Mr Michael Brooks, the managing director of Williams Construction Canterbury, the company building the 12-storey hotel block, said that a thorough investigation had established that the . incident was not the of faulty design or'manufac-
ture. A concrete panel fell about 18m from the side of the ninth floor of the partially constructed building, landing about three metres from a construction worker. The panel fell as a result of simple human error by a member of the construction team, he said,. The company was, however, reviewing its. safety procedures to ensure that such an incident did not recur.
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