The director of a scaffolding company has received a suspended prison sentence and his firm was fined after a worker fell five metres and suffered a fatal head injury while dismantling scaffolding.
Southwark Crown Court heard how, on 16 February 2017, two operatives working for Wembley Scaffolding Services Limited were dismantling a scaffold on Cricklewood Broadway, London. During this process, the scaffold collapsed, resulting in one of the operatives falling at least five metres onto a concrete pavement, causing serious head injuries. He later died from these injuries on 4 March 2017.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Wembley Scaffolding Services Limited’s director, Sean Chapple, failed to carry out a suitable risk assessment, plan the work and provide a design for erection and dismantling of the scaffold. Sean Chapple himself was not knowledgeable about the measures required to do this without putting people at risk and therefore didn’t follow the correct measures to ensure safe erection and dismantling of the scaffold.
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