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BBC News
7 days ago
- BBC News
Stamford nursery operators sentenced over severely burned toddler
A nursery has been ordered to pay more than £20,000 in costs after a toddler was left "scarred for life" by scalding little girl sustained severe burns to her head, face and neck at the Children's Garden Day Nursery in Stamford in 2023, Lincoln Crown Court John Kenyon, 53 and Claire Kenyon, 54 admitted two health and safety offences at a previous a victim impact statement read out at the sentencing hearing on Monday, the girl's mum said: "The fact that we handed our daughter over, where we felt she was safe, is what we struggle with and the guilt around this will not leave us." Alison Lambert, prosecuting on behalf of South Kesteven District Council, said the toddler was injured when an open-topped milk bottle warmer tipped Sjolin Knight said the circumstances of how it happened were not totally her statement, the girl's mum said her daughter, who required specialist hospital treatment, was scarred for life and would need more surgery and treatment as she grew Bajwa KC, mitigating said the operators of the Children's Garden Day Nursery partnership were "mortified" that the bottle heater had inflicted such horrific said the nursery had taken steps to ensure the incident could not be repeated, including replacing the bottle warmer with one that doesn't use hot nursery admitted failing to ensure the health and safety of non-members of staff and failing to report an incident to the council by the quickest practical means, and within ten days. Judge Knight issued a £600 fine for the first offence, reduced to £400 for early guilty pleas, and awarded prosecution costs of £20, added: "It is really important that incidents like this are fully and properly investigated and prosecuted."The court heard compensation for the injuries sustained was being dealt with in the civil courts. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone and iPad or Google Play for Android devices
CBC
11-03-2025
- CBC
All charges withdrawn against Stelco after 2 workers died from burns at Nanticoke, Ont., plant
The provincial Crown has withdrawn all charges against Stelco, after two workers suffered severe burns they later died from. All but one Ministry of Labour charge was also withdrawn against John Kenyon Ltd., the sheet metal contractor and employer of Gabriel Cabral, 32, and Sean MacPherson, 56, who were badly injured on April 25, 2023 at the Stelco Lake Erie Works plant in Nanticoke. At the Ontario Court of Justice in Cayuga last week, John Kenyon instead pleaded guilty to one count of failing to take every reasonable precaution to protect a worker. It was ordered to pay a $250,000 fine and 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, said the Ministry of Labour. John Kenyon and Stelco did not respond to CBC Hamilton's request for comment. Cabral's mother, Pam Fraser, said earlier this year, she was shocked to learn the Crown wasn't pursuing all the charges through a trial. While excruciating to sit through, a trial would've meant Fraser heard evidence and testimony that would've helped her understand how 70 per cent of her son's body sustained severe burns while on the job. "I want assurance this is not going to happen to another person or family again" Fraser said, speaking to CBC Hamilton on Friday — a few days after the court case concluded. "I am just so angry. My son died in vain." Died weeks later in hospital Cabral and MacPherson were burned by steam while repairing steel cladding on a quench tower, a structure used for cooling hot coke in the steelmaking process, their families previously told CBC Hamilton. John Kenyon and Stelco had each initially faced four charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act including failing to provide information, instruction and supervision to workers. Among those withdrawn, John Kenyon had been charged with failing to provide equipment, materials and protective devices to protect workers from hot steam, and Stelco with failing to have an emergency stop device on the mogul/quench car. The Ministry of Labour said it could not comment on the Crown seeking a conviction on only one charge because the matter was decided by the court. In the hours after the incident, Cabral was in critical condition and airlifted to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, said Fraser. He had sustained third and fourth degree burns on most of his body, including on his face and lungs, was in a coma and on life support. Over the next three weeks, his condition worsened, Fraser said. The tips of his fingers would need to be cut off, doctors told her, and he may not be able to see again. He died on May 16, 2023 from his injuries. "My beautiful boy was gone," Fraser wrote in her victim impact statement read in court. "The feeling was surreal. It was over, but the horror of what had happened still remains." Cabral's death has devastated his two brothers, partner, and large group of friends, said Fraser. She is no longer able to work full-time and experiences difficulty sleeping, panic attacks, nightmares, regret and guilt. "The pain he must have been in at the moment of his accident — I relive the nightmare," Fraser said. MacPherson was also hospitalized at Sunnybrook's critical care burn unit for several months, but died in November 2023. His obituary said he would be "deeply missed" by his many relatives and friends.
