Construction company Trumax Building has been fined £10,000 for safety breaches after an employee under the age of 18 fell 2.6 metres through a stairway on a building site in Scunthorpe.
Sheffield Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 18 May 2018, the junior bricklater was working on the first floor of a house being built at a development property on North Street in West Butterwick. He was using a trowel to remove excess mortar from the back of breeze blocks, when he stepped backwards and fell through an unprotected stairway opening onto the concrete ground floor. He suffered two fractured ribs and contusions.
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