Bosses of a Leeds engineering firm are set to appear in the dock on Tuesday after being charged with Health & Safety Executive failings after a seven-year-old boy died falling into a pipe on a building site.
Conley Thompson died after slipping into a plastic pipe on a construction site in Bank End Road in Worsbrough in Barnsley, in July 2015. Howard Civil Engineering Ltd of Howard House in Seacroft in Leeds will appear for sentencing at Barnsley Magistrates' Court for breaching regulation 13(4)(b) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and Section 3 (1) of the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
HSE has taken the lead from South Yorkshire Police into investigating his death. Builders found his body when they arrived for work at the site - which had no security guards for almost two weeks and where panels had been removed from the fence around it.
