Housing firm fined £528,000 after cable strike

A housing company based in Kent has been fined £528,000 after an employee repairing a fence post struck an underground cable suffering burns to his face.
The MHS Homes employee and a colleague had been tasked by the company to repair three fence posts in a back garden of a tenant on 10 January 2023.
They had already repaired two of the posts and started on a third, when one of the workers struck an underground electrical cable as he tried to break through some concrete using a breaker.The