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Contractor with ‘outdated H&S attitudes’ fined after fatal church steeple fall

The church steeple from which David Clover fell from and died - the contractor has been fined £60,000 after pleading guilty to contravening Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 — David Clover suffered fatal injuries when he fell from a ‘bosun's chair’ working on the steeple of St Nicolas’ Church (Image: HSE)

A specialist contractor with “outdated attitudes to managing health and safety” has been fined £60,000 after a worker fell to his death from a church steeple in Birmingham.

David Clover, 64, was employed by Ecclesiastical Steeplejacks Ltd to carry out restoration work to St Nicolas’ Church in Kings Norton on 13 November 2020.

Clover had been suspended from the 60m-tall steeple of the Grade I-listed building, sitting in a ‘bosun’s chair’ (a work positioning seat), when he fell, suffering fatal injuries.

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