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Company fined after OAP fall

July 8, 2008

Company fined after OAP fall
A heating firm has been fined £5,000 after it admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.

Progas Heating, of Denny, Stirlingshire, was handed the penalty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after an 89-year-old Edinburgh woman fell through a hatch in her kitchen floor which had been left open by a worker from the firm.

The Edinburgh Evening News reports Progas employees were moving the gas meter from the inside the woman's home to outside when the incident occurred.

According to the paper they left the hatch in the floor open to allow access, but left it unprotected save for the closed kitchen door.

The News reports the 89-year-old suffered three fractures to her ankle when she walked into the room to cook a meal and fell through the gap.

Fellow paper the Scotsman said The Health and Safety Executive yesterday advised companies to take care when working in elderly persons' homes.
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