The mother or father firm of Pontins has appeared in courtroom after being charged with company manslaughter.
Eighteen individuals have been injured on the vacation park agency’s Brean Sands website in Somerset in February 2019 when a 40-metre part of structural ducting and ceiling fell inside an leisure space.
Wendy Jones, a 68-year-old grandmother, was amongst six individuals taken to hospital on the time. She died the next August.
Devon and Somerset Fireplace and Rescue Service mentioned the fallen ceiling sections uncovered stay broken electrics.
The mother or father firm, Britannia Jinky Jersey Ltd, is accused of company manslaughter between 1 January 2015 and 21 February 2019, and was charged final month.
The cost alleges the corporate was in “gross breach of its duty to take reasonable care for the safety of Wendy Jones”.
It additionally alleges the corporate “exposed Wendy Jones to the risk of death from the collapse of the ventilation ducting”.
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Pontin’s in Brean, Somerset. Pic: PA
Stephen Bennison, 59, from Farington in Lancashire, has been charged with failing to discharge basic well being/security responsibility to an individual apart from an worker.
That refers to part three of the Well being and Security at Work Act 1974.
It’s alleged that as a self-employed contractor he “failed to conduct his undertaking” to make sure that “members of the public, including Wendy Jones, were not exposed to risks to their health and safety, namely the risk posed by overloaded ductwork in the Fun Factory”.
Each defendants appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court docket.
District Decide Lynne Matthews despatched the case to Bristol Crown Court docket for trial, the place attorneys for the events will subsequent seem on Friday.
Neither get together entered any pleas and Bennison was launched on unconditional bail.
