Safety failings left a farm worker with his skull broken in two places when he fell four metres from the roof of a barn in North Devon.
Andrew Jeffrey was working for LD Heywood at Gorvin Farm, Woolsery, when the accident happened in September 2009.
His boss, Leslie Heywood, had asked him to cut ventilation holes in the roof of a cattle barn. Mr Jeffrey ended up working there alone when he fell through a sheet of roofing, landing on the concrete floor below.
Appearing before magistrates in North Devon, the company, based at East Milford Farm, Hartland, admitting breaking section 2(1) of the Health And Safety At Work Act 1974.
LD Heywood was ordered to pay a fine of £5,000 and £2,500 costs. Mr Heywood himself was also told to pay £2,500 in costs.
Source: Claims Mangement
