A court has been told that a worker suffered fractures to his back, hip and leg when he was hit by a four-tonne piling hammer after it broke free while being lifted into position.
In September 2012 work to renew a sewage outlet in Hartlepool was being undertaken when Eric Wilson, who was in a metre of sea water using a hammer to drive piles into the beach moved the hammer and the using supporting it broke and it fell striking him.