A construction company has been fined £150,000 after a worker broke his back in a fall from height while helping to demolish a farm building.
South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 20 September 2017, an employee of Northern Structures was removing roof sheets from a timber frame farm building when he fell four metres through one of the asbestos cement roof sheets onto the ground below.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that, while a risk assessment and method statement were in place to remove the roof sheets from below, this method was then changed to remove them from above. It was during this process that the employee fell through a roof sheet.
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