A company has been fined after an employee became seriously ill when he contracted a blood infection while working at a lake contaminated with sewage.
He was working for Adler and Allan Ltd, a supplier of environmental risk services, during a clean-up operation at a lake near Churchbridge, Cannock, Staffordshire, in June 2019.
Dead fish had to be cleaned out of the lake after it was contaminated with sewage when a nearby pipe burst.
The employee worked at the lake for two weeks before contracting Leptospirosis (Weil’s Disease) and became seriously ill.
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HSE Press release – 7th December 2022