THE prosecution of two companies after a Hinkley Point C worker was seriously injured will reach its first court hearing next month.

A hearing is due in Bristol Magistrates Court on December 15 into allegations of health and safety breaches by Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS and Laing O’Rourke Delivery Ltd.

It follows an incident on the Hinkley C construction site on August 20, 2022, when a man suffered serious injuries in a pre-fabrication yard.

A wall of rebar mesh fell on the employee as he was working to remove it from a vertical jig to be transferred to another part of the site.

Both companies are part of the joint venture consortium Bylor, which is delivering Hinkley C’s main civil engineering works.

They each face one charge of failing to plan, manage, and monitor construction work without risks to health and safety.

The legal proceedings have been brought after an investigation by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), the independent regulator of the UK’s nuclear industry.

An ONR spokesperson said: “The incident was a conventional health and safety matter and there was no radiological risk to the public.

“Given that matters are now subject to legal proceedings, we are unable to comment further at this time.”

Bouygues Travaux and Laing O’Rourke together with NNB Generation Company (HPC) Ltd are also being prosecuted in the same Bristol court on December 15 in relation to the death of site supervisor Jason Waring, aged 48, of Nottingham.

Mr Waring was crushed by moving machinery on November 13, 2022, three months after the earlier incident.

The three companies each face a similar health and safety charge and will be represented for a plea and allocation hearing before the magistrates in a prosecution brought after another investigation by the ONR.

NNB GenCo is the principal contractor for the Hinkley C nuclear construction project.