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Roofing company prosecuted after worker falls from height (3 October 2016)

Date: 03/10/2016
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Roofing company prosecuted after worker falls from height

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a King’s Lynn roofing company, after a worker fell seven metres from a scaffold access ladder while assisting with chimney repairs.

On 10 July 2015, the unnamed worker was subcontracted by J Webber Roofing Limited to assist with removing waste, mixing cement and bringing tools up to colleagues who were working on the chimney at a domestic property on Beech Avenue in Kings Lynn.

The company had erected a scaffold platform around the chimney, with an access ladder attached to it.

The worker climbed up the ladder carrying a cement-filled bucket on his shoulder, with a radio attached to it. He lost his balance and fell approximately seven metres to the ground. The fall resulted in multiple fractures to both of the worker’s wrists and his lower left arm. He required surgery and steel plates and will never regain full use of his hands.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found that J Webber had failed to adequately plan work at height involving the manual handling of construction materials and waste up and down scaffold ladders.

At Kings Lynn Magistrates Court, J Webber Roofing Limited of 81 Gayton Road, Gaywood in Kings Lynn pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 4(1)(a) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005.

The company was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £1,582 in costs.

After the hearing, HSE Inspector Kasia Urbaniak said:

“The risk of falls from ladders is well known – ladders are being frequently misused where often better specifically designed equipment is easily available.”

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