Croudace Homes has been fined £80,000 after an employee fell through a plasterboard ceiling, sustaining serious injuries.
The worker was in a loft space on a site in Basingstoke on 31 October 2016 when he fell through the ceiling onto a staircase, puncturing a lung, as well as fracturing six ribs, a vertebra and a shoulder.
An investigation by the Health & Safety Executive found that there was poor planning of the pre-plaster work and a lack of understanding of the risks associated with working at height in the loft without adequate fragile surface protection.
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