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Cormac health and safety incident: Monitoring Officer tells members of the public that they cannot ask questions about it

Many of the residents of my division are very concerned about what happened and know Joe as a friend and neighbour. Four of them decided to submit questions to next week’s Cabinet meeting in the public questions section of the meeting. They have been advised by the Council:

"In respect of the question you wished to ask at Cabinet on 17 June 2020, the Council’s Monitoring Officer has rejected it for the following reason. The question is rejected on the basis that it relates to matters for which the Council is not responsible, as the employer at all material times was Cormac and not the Council. It is not therefore appropriate for the Council to accept or respond to public questions relating to matters that fall within the responsibilities of Cormac. Please do contact Cormac in relation to these issues and, if you require their contact details, please let me know.”

For your information, see below the questions that the residents posed:

Oliver Baines of Grampound Road:
On 16 December 2016, a Cormac employee was working in the Cormac depot at Grampound Road. He was found by colleagues with a serious head wound, barely conscious and there was a pool of blood on the floor of the yard. He was taken by ambulance to Treliske where he was found to have a fractured skull. The Highways Manager of Cormac attended the scene of the incident. Why did he not call the police and ask them to investigate to determine if a crime had been committed?

From Chris Dodwell of Grampound Road:
On 16 December 2016, a Cormac employee suffered a life changing injury in an incident at Cormac’s depot in Grampound Road. In August 2017, an incident report produced by the Health and Safety Manager of Cormac suggested that there were four possible explanations for his injuries. One potential explanation was "The head injury may have been as a result of him being struck by an object either wielded or thrown by a third party.” Why did Cormac not, at this time, contact the police and ask them to investigate a possible criminal assault?

From Des Mennear of Tregony:
On 16 December 2016, a Cormac employee was working in the Cormac depot at Grampound Road. He was found by colleagues with a serious head wound, barely conscious and there was a pool of blood on the floor of the yard. He was taken by ambulance to Treliske where he was found to have a fractured skull. On 23 January 2017, the Health and Safety Manager of Cormac submitted a RIDDOR report to the Health and Safety Executive. In that report, he stated that the injured person was taken to hospital by a colleague. Why did he say that?

From Colin Brown of Tregony:
On 16 December 2016, a Cormac employee was working in the Cormac depot at Grampound Road. He was found by colleagues with a serious head wound, barely conscious and there was a pool of blood on the floor of the yard. He was taken by ambulance to Treliske where he was found to have a fractured skull. The employee’s wife phoned the highways manager of Cormac that evening to tell him that her husband had a fractured skull. An internal Cormac email in January showed that Cormac knew that the employee had a fractured skull. Under RIDDOR, a fractured skull is a reportable injury. On 23 January 2017, the Health and Safety Manager of Cormac submitted a RIDDOR report to the Health and Safety Executive. In that report, he stated that the injury was a "injury preventing the injured person from working for more than 7 days ”. Why did he not report it correctly as a fractured skull?

The above were the full texts of the questions initially submitted. They all had to edit them to 50 words maximum as this is the rule for public questions.

 

 

June 2020

 

ALL ARTICLES REGARDING CORMAC AND CABINET RESIGNATION

See Resignation from Cabinet

See Cormac incident update

See Cormac solicitor letter

See Interview recording

See Council refuses to answer questions about Cormac

See HSE letter to Cormac

See Court case threat update

See Behind the Headlines

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