One Vision Housing

One Vision Housing has awarded a workman with a 'Community Hero' award after his quick actions saved the life of one of its tenants.

Sean Pellett (20) from FOZ Electrical, a subcontractor of Kier, was working on the home of George Hughes (79), as part of One Vision Housing Decent Homes Programme, when Mr Hughes collapsed and hit his head on a chest of drawers causing serious injury.

Mr Hughes had fallen unconscious and was barely breathing when Sean reached him. He instructed a colleague to call an ambulance and placed Mr Hughes into the recovery position, comforting him and his wife until the paramedics arrived.

It was later discovered that Sean's actions had saved Mr Hughes' life as he had suffered an aortic rupture and two heart attacks, and spent the next two weeks in hospital.

The award - the first of its kind - was presented to Sean at the home of Mr Hughes by One Vision Housing Chief Executive Roy Williams.

Mr Williams said: "Everyone at One Vision Housing would like to give our most sincere thanks to Sean for his actions. By keeping a cool head and reacting quickly in this situation he has saved a life and we feel that he fully deserves this recognition as a token of our appreciation."

Mr Hughes said: "I can not thank Sean enough for what he did. Without his help I simply would not be here right now and he fully deserves all the praise he receives."

John Quirk, Senior Operations Director for KBM said: "Kier is very proud of Sean's actions and we try to encourage this behaviour in all our employees as Health and Safety is one of our key priorities. We'd like to applaud Sean and thank him for his great work with Kier."

Speaking at the presentation Sean said: I am very grateful to One Vision Housing for this award, however I feel that I was only doing what anyone would have done in the same situation and I am extremely glad that Mr Hughes managed to hang on until the paramedics arrived and that he is alive and well."