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HSE prosecutes company director after worker is injured in fall (25 January 2016)

Date: 25/01/2016
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, HSE prosecutes company director after worker is injured in fall

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a sash restoration company, after a worker fell three metres through an unprotected skylight.

On 14 July 2014, an employee of the Sash Restoration Company (Dorset) Limited fell through an unprotected skylight while replacing sash windows on a large manor house, breaking his wrist in the fall.

The Health and Safety Executive found that the work was not adequately planned to take account of the risk of working near to a fragile surface.

The incident was not reported by the company – and only came to the attention of HSE following a query about the incident from an unnamed source.

On Wednesday 13 January 2016, the director of Sash Restoration Company Dorset Limited, David Richard Garrett – whose business is based at Henford Road in Ensbury Park, Bournemouth – was fined a total of £3,300, with costs of £1,526.

Mr Garrett pleaded guilty to an offence under Regulation 9(2) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and Regulation 4(1) of RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations) 2013.

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