A Merseyside roofer has been fined after he allowed lives to be put at risk on the roof of a semi-detached house in Maghull.
Phillip McGinn, 38, and two other workers were photographed retiling the roof of a property on Old Race Course Road on 21 August this year without safety measures in place to prevent them falling to the ground below.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) sent an inspector to visit the site after receiving a complaint about the work from a member of the public. The inspector immediately issued a Prohibition Notice ordering the men to come down from the roof until it had been made safe.
On 13 December, South Sefton Magistrates' Court in Bootle was told that scaffolding had been erected at the front of the house, but there was nothing at the side or back of the roof to stop workers falling off.
Phillip McGinn, who trades at Stormguard Roofing, pleaded guilty to a breach of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 after he failed to take measures to prevent workers being injured in a fall.
Mr McGinn, of Wynnstay Avenue in Maghull, was fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £1,668 in prosecution costs.
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