A scaffolding firm has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 in fines and costs following the death of an employee who plunged 13 metres through the roof of a Skelmersdale warehouse.
Married father-of-one Tony Causby, 42, from Leigh, was helping to dismantle scaffolding when he stepped onto a fr…
A Kent father and grandfather died after plunging six metres through a fragile skylight because safety measures were neglected both by his employer and a major drinks wholesaler, a court has heard.
Robert Rogers, 61, was working for Richard Parker, trading as Ovenden Engineering, which had been c…
A York firm that fits solar panels has been prosecuted after an employee fell four metres through the fragile roof of a pig shed at an East Yorkshire farm.
The worker had been employed for just two weeks by Solar Fit PV Ltd. and had no experience in solar panel installation. He was on all fours c…
Bradford Council has been fined for breaching safety regulations after a
school caretaker was left with permanent disabilities when he fell
through the school hall ceiling five days before his retirement.
David O'Hanlon, 62, was putting a new light bulb in a roof void of the old Beckfoot Scho…
A Darlington contractor has been fined after a worker was left severely brain damaged following a fall from a house roof.
Mark Lambton, 50, from Darlington, was working for James Wilson, trading as J Wilson Home Improvements, when the incident happened on 2 July 2011.
Mr Wilson had secured wor…
An East Yorkshire farm owner has been fined for a serious breach of
safety law after a 20-year-old worker suffered severe injuries when he
fell 4.5 metres through a roof light.
Daniel Boldan Hoggard was on the roof trying to repair a leak between two adjoining farm buildings at Low Hunsley Fa…
A Wirral roofer has been prosecuted after he allowed a labourer to
use a lit gas burner on a house roof without any measures in place to
stop him being injured in a fall.
Daniel Loftus was photographed on the roof of a terraced house on Mainwaring Road, Wallasey, approximately five metres …
The director of a Suffolk roofing firm has been sentenced for safety
failings after he was caught on camera using a power tool while
balancing on the ridge of a house roof.
Anthony Nightingale of Copdock, Ipswich, was filmed using a petrol-powered disc cutter to cut through a tile while he an…
An animal feed producer and a maintenance contractor have been fined after a woman fell five metres through a fragile warehouse roof in Staffordshire.
The 27-year-old woman was repairing a gutter at Provimi Ltd.'s site in Eastern Avenue, Lichfield, when she tripped and fell through a rooflight.