worker death

The Electricity Authority (EAC) was fined €28,000 due to the death of a worker in 2018. The worker, 42-year-old Georgios Georgiou, a father of three, fell four meters from a cherry picker in Larnaca. Investigations revealed that the EAC failed to meet minimum health and safety standards, specifically not maintaining the elevated work platform properly, failing to replace a worn pin which led to a mechanical failure causing the basket to fall, and not conducting periodic inspections or implementing a safety or risk management system.