He suffered a small minor burn, pain down his right leg, chest pain and was shaken. This came after staff failed to fix an issue with the electrical supply to the glass heating element under the handrail at the front of the freezer. The Public Protection Partnership, the investigating body, said the supply had become damaged and exposed, leaving a severed live wire sticking out under the rub rail. Subsequent reviews of records showed the freezer’s rail was known to be loose and had temporary fixes of glue or tape some months prior to the accident. Cllr John Harrison, Public Protection boss at Bracknell Forest Council, said: “This investigation which followed an incident where a child was electrocuted in the store revealed significant breaches of health and safety legislation and this is clearly reflected in the sentencing.
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image captionThe incident happened at a Tesco store in Warfield, Bracknell
Tesco has been fined more than £500,000 after a 10-year-old child was given an electric shock by a freezer unit.
The child suffered a small burn, chest and leg pains after they reached to get an ice lolly from the unit at a store in Warfield, Bracknell.
The Public Protection Service said a live wire, which was sticking out under a rail on the freezer, had become damaged and exposed.
The supermarket giant pleaded guilty to two health and safety offences.
It was fined £268,000 for each offence at Reading Magistrates Court.
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