Roof fall leads to broken bones and company fineRSS Feed
A construction firm has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £19,000 costs after an employee suffered several broken bones in an accident at work.
Fred Lewis Scaffold Company was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following an incident that saw 28-year-old Gary Hampton fall seven metres through a roof.
The father-of-three was installing scaffolding at a factory on Newstead Industrial Estate when the accident occurred and he suffered multiple injuries.
Mr Hampton was in hospital for six weeks due to a shattered thigh bone, broken wrists, bruised lungs and two broken vertebrae.
HSE inspector Alastair Choudhury commented: "If Fred Lewis Scaffold Company had carried out an adequate survey of this job before starting work and supervised and trained its employees properly, the risks involved would have been identified."
The news comes after three Dundee companies were fined £336,000 when a worker fell six-and-a-half metres through a roof light onto a concrete floor.
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