The Labour Inspection Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance promoted the criminal prosecution of the company "PEPSIS AND YIOS ERGOLITIKI LTD" for violating the provisions of the Legislation on Occupational Safety and Health.
As a result of this prosecution, the Nicosia District Court sentenced the company "PEPSIS AND YIOS CONSTRUCTION LTD", which is active, inter alia, in the execution of construction works, to a total fine of €8.000 for the following violations of the Occupational Safety and Health (Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences) Regulations and the Occupational Safety and Health Laws that caused the injury of one of its employees:
(a) Failure to provide and maintain a safe method of work while cleaning a crusher screen with the assistance of another machine (excavator), resulting in its employee, who was engaged in cleaning it, being seriously injured in the fingers of his left hand when it was crushed between a door of the machine's receiving hopper and the machine's fixed frame.
(b) Failure to inform immediately, in the most prompt and practical manner, the Nicosia District Labour Inspectorate regarding an accident which occurred to an employee during the cleaning of a crusher machine and which rendered him unable to perform his work for more than three days, excluding the day of the accident.
(d) Failure to send to the Nicosia District Labour Inspectorate Office a written notification of an accident by submitting a properly and fully completed approved notification form regarding an accident that occurred to its employee during the cleaning of a crusher machine and which rendered him/her unable to perform his/her work for more than three calendar days, excluding the day of the accident.
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