A date has been set for the trial of three companies charged with health and safety offences following the death of site worker Jason Waring at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station construction site in Somerset in November 2022.
NNB Generation Company (HPC), Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke Delivery have pleaded not guilty to failing to plan, manage and monitor the construction phase and co-ordinate matters relating to health and safety during the construction phase to ensure that work was carried out without risks to health and safety, contravening Regulation 13(1) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke Delivery entered not guilty pleas to failing to plan, manage and monitor to ensure that construction work was carried out without risks to health and safety, contravening Regulation 15(2) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
The case was brought by the Office for Nuclear Relation (ONR).
A trial date has been scheduled for 17th January 2028 at Bristol Crown Court. The trial is expected to last between four and six weeks.
The ONR has also taken out a separate prosecution against Laing O’Rourke Delivery and Bouygues Travaux Publics after a rebar mesh wall incident on the project in August 2022. An employee, Paul Dunne, who worked as a slinger for Bylor Services (a Bouygues/Laing O’Rourke joint venture), sustained serious injuries in a prefabrication yard when a wall of rebar mesh fell on him as he was working to remove the wall from a vertical jig for transfer to another part of the site.
Laing O’Rourke Delivery and Bouygues Travaux Publics face a charge of failing to plan, manage and monitor construction work without risks to health and safety contravening Regulation 15(2) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and previously entered not guilty pleas at a hearing held in December 2025.
An additional charge that both organisations failed to conduct a suitable and sufficient risk assessment of the risks to the health and safety of their employees, under Regulation 3 (1) (a) of the Management of Health and Safety At Work Regulations 1999, contravening Section 33(1)(c) of the Act, has now also been added.
Both organisations have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
A trial date for this case has been set for 13th October 2027 at Bristol Crown Court.
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