Mr Hoadley, from Norfolk, sued his employer, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, claiming the accident could have been avoided had he known the machinery’s power source had not been deactivated. The specialist turbine installer, nicknamed “Mr Safety” by workmates because of his reputation for diligence, worked at the Rentel offshore wind farm in a Belgian-controlled sector of the North Sea.
An engineer who had his arm sliced off by a wind turbine “like a guillotine” has won a compensation payout expected to be more than £1 million.ĭarren Hoadley, 42, was checking the bearings in the mechanism that spins the blades when the rotating machine “traumatically amputated” his left arm in June 2018, the High Court in London was told.
