Housing services firm St Leger Homes has been fined £250,000 after a worker fell through a flat roof during construction work.
St Leger Homes is an arm’s-length management organisation set up by Doncaster Council in 2005 which manages all the local authority’s 21,000 homes.
Sheffield Magistrates Court heard how, on 14 September 2016, two operatives were undertaking a flat roof replacement of a single storey outhouse at the rear of premises in Moorends, Doncaster.
During the re-roofing a joist failed causing one of the operatives to fall internally through the roof. The operative sustained three cracked ribs, contusions and was unable to work for seven months.
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