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£100,000 fine after worker is injured in fall from height (4 August 2016)

Date: 04/08/2016
Duncan Lewis, Personal Injury Solicitors, £100,000 fine after worker is injured in fall from height

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a Suffolk-based company, after an agency worker was injured when he fell from height from a ladder.

The worker was employed at Pauls Malt Limited in West Knapton, near Malton, Suffolk and was injured on 6 May 2015 after falling approximately two metres from the ladder. He sustained two fractures to his right foot and bruising to his chest, as well as head injuries.

The worker fell while checking the fill level of malt in a container being loaded for export, before closing the hopper feed. The container was fitted with a full-size fabric liner with a high-level loading flap, which would be zipped up once the container was full.

An HSE investigation found that the company had not carried out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment of the work at height involved in closing the zipped flaps on the fabric liners used to line containers being loaded with malt for export.

A system of work had developed which involved propping a 4m-long ladder against the rear of the container to gain access to the zip-up flap.

However, the ladder was too long for this purpose and was propped at too shallow an angle – the ladder had slipped outwards at the foot, causing the agency worker to fall with the ladder.

At Scarborough Magistrates’ Court on 29 July 2016, Pauls Malt Limited – trading as Boortmalt – of Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

The company was fined £100,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,257.

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For expert legal advice on no win no fee Falls from Height Claims, call Duncan Lewis personal injury solicitors on 0333 772 0409.


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