BT has paid out more than £500,000 for a fall-from-height accident for the second time inside a month.
The telecomms giant was fined £600,000 in late May after two of its employees were injured after falling from height.
The latest incident involved an engineer falling seven metres from a loft in London. Worker David Spurgeon was fixing a telephone fault in the roof void of a residential block of flats when he lost his balance and fell through the ceiling, landing on a concrete stairwell, breaking his back and his ankles.
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