A Lancashire-based construction company has been fined £8,000 after a worker fell through a roof at a building site.
The 27-year-old employee, who has asked not to be named, was seriously injured when he fell more than five metres through the fragile roof on 16 October 2009.
He was fixing scaffolding to a section of roof at a commercial premises at Trow Way in Worcester when he stood on a skylight and it gave way.
His employer, Tower Hire (Services) Ltd, had not warned him that the roof was fragile, Worcester Magistrates’ Court heard.
The man fell almost five and half metres to the floor below, breaking his pelvis, elbow and wrist. As a result of his injuries he has not been able to return to work.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that the firm had failed to give the worker any information or training on how to recognise fragile roofs or on the risks involved with working on them, the court heard.
Tower Hire (Services) Ltd, of Southport Road, Chorley, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and was fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £6,644 costs.
Medico-Legal News Source: Claims Management Magazine
