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A 'loving and selfless' dad-of-two died when trying to fix a telephone line near a swollen river. Alun Owen slipped and fell into the River Aber in Abergwyngregyn, near Bangor in North Wales, before being swept away on October 6, 2020.
The 32-year-old Openreach engineer, known as 'Al Bonc' to friends and family, should never have been put in that position by his employer according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). It deemed the location to be an 'unsafe working position' following an investigation into the tragedy.
Openreach Limited was slapped with a £1.34m fine after pleading guilty to breaching Section 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at work etc. Act 1974, and were ordered to pay costs of £15,858.35 at Llandudno Magistrates' Court yesterday (June 5). The HSE insisted Mr Owen's death should have been 'preventable', Wales Online reports.
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The investigation by HSE and North Wales Police found that a number of Openreach engineers had been attempting to repair the telephone lines, which ran across the river, over a period of two months. They had been working both near and in the river.
The probe found that at the time of the incident, there had been flooding in the area which meant the river was much higher and faster flowing than usual. It also reported that Mr Owen entered the water and made his way to an island in the middle of the river in order to try and throw a new telephone cable across to the other side by taping it to a hammer and then throwing the hammer.
Whilst attempting to cross the remaining section of the river, he slipped in a deeper part and the force of the river swept him away. The
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