The dad of a schoolboy who tragically died of cancer suffered serious burns in an accident at his work three years after his son's death. Carl Lowery's son Bradley passed away in 2017 at the age of six.
But on May 12, 2020, Carl had been working on new apartment blocks in Salford when an electrical flash blew him backwards and burnt his arms and face. The then 37-year-old underwent multiple surgeries following the incident and required a skin graft from his thigh, reports Manchester Evening News. A Health and Safety Executive investigation found Aberla M&E Limited had incorrectly assumed the guard panel was sufficient separation of the workers from the live bus bars. In a statement the HSE said: "The company failed to take into account a gap in the guard panel, which risked nuts, bolts, tools and even fingers coming into contact with the bus bars.
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