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Two contractors face prosecution over Hinkley Point C accident
20 August 2025
Installation of the first of two reactor pressure vessels at Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. (Image: Aran Jeffries/EDF Energy)
Two contractors face prosecution under health and safety laws after a worker was injured during construction of the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said it has notified Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke Delivery of the intended prosecution under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
It comes after an incident on 20 August 2022 in a pre-fabrication yard at the nuclear construction site near Bridgwater in Somerset.
An employee sustained serious injuries when a wall of rebar mesh fell upon him as he was working to remove the wall from a vertical jig to be transferred to another part of the site.
The incident was a conventional health and safety matter and there was no radiological risk to the public.
Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke Delivery, which work together under the BYLOR joint venture to deliver the main civil engineering works on the project, each face a single charge of failing to plan, manage and monitor construction work without risks to health and safety.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation said, “Given that matters are now subject to legal proceedings, we are unable to comment further at this time.”
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