Failure to provide safety training contributed to accident
November 5, 2008
A firm has been found to be at fault after a failure to offer safety training to one of its employees contributed to an accident while he was working at height.
Demolition Dismantling Services was fined £3,350 plus £3,000 in costs after a labourer fell from a roof at a site on the Wirral.
Pleading guilty to its breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the firm admitted liability for the five metre floor which caused the worker serious leg and pelvic injuries.
The company had not provided suitable safety training, conducted an adequate risk assessment or provided equipment which could have reduced the damage.
Christina Goddard, an inspector for the Health and Safety Executive, claims the accident could easily have resulted in the death of the employee.
"The labourer was given a job for which he had absolutely no training, was working from an inadequate platform and there was no other form of fall protection," she states.
Last month, TJ Myles and Co (Contractors) and Crispin and Borst were fined a combined £44,500 for health and safety breaches which led to the partial paralysis of an employee who was working at height.
Demolition Dismantling Services was fined £3,350 plus £3,000 in costs after a labourer fell from a roof at a site on the Wirral.
Pleading guilty to its breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the firm admitted liability for the five metre floor which caused the worker serious leg and pelvic injuries.
The company had not provided suitable safety training, conducted an adequate risk assessment or provided equipment which could have reduced the damage.
Christina Goddard, an inspector for the Health and Safety Executive, claims the accident could easily have resulted in the death of the employee.
"The labourer was given a job for which he had absolutely no training, was working from an inadequate platform and there was no other form of fall protection," she states.
Last month, TJ Myles and Co (Contractors) and Crispin and Borst were fined a combined £44,500 for health and safety breaches which led to the partial paralysis of an employee who was working at height.
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