Skegness Magazine

Skegness Briar Way Market – Building Collapse

- 2 killed 14 injured

- man and firm for trial

Sidney John Dennis, of Holly Tree Farm, Croft, was committed for trial to Lincoln Crown Count by Skegness magistrates last week on five charges of failing to take necessary precautions to prevent the collapse of a building onto Briar Way market Skegness in September 1978.
Lincoln Elm (contracts) Limited of High Street, Lincoln, were also committed on the same five charges.
The charges are:
At Skegness at a construction site in Briar Way, being an employer contravened Section three (one) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 in that part of the undertaking, namely the removal of the steelwork framing part of the building was not conducted in such a way as to ensure so far as was reasonably practicable, that persons not in his employment who might be affected thereby were not thereby expose to risks in their health and safety.
Being a contractor, when a part of the framing was removed from a framed building all practicable precautions were not taken to avoid danger from collapse of the building.

Source: Skegness Standard 7th December 1979