A roofing agency in Manchester has been fined £20,000 after an worker fractured his again falling by means of a roof throughout a restore job, the well being and security watchdog has mentioned.
The Hightech Roofing N/W Restricted employee fell about 4.8 metres by means of a roof gentle through the incident in Blackburn on 3 August 2022.
The worker suffered a damaged foot and ankle, in addition to a fractured vertebra, in response to the Well being and Security Govt (HSE).
An HSE investigation discovered that Hightech Roofing had “failed to make sure the work on the roof was correctly deliberate, appropriately supervised and carried out in a way that was as protected as fairly practicable”, the company mentioned in an announcement.
The roofing agency put in oriented strand boards in order that employees may transfer across the roof, however they didn’t cowl the roof lights (pictured, proper), which led to the employee falling, the HSE mentioned.
The corporate additionally did not assess particular dangers “arising from the necessity to work on or over fragile surfaces and failed to think about dangers arising from workers working in proximity to the sting of the roof”.
Hightech Roofing additionally failed to put in edge safety on the gable finish of the constructing, the HSE mentioned.
Hightech Roofing N/W Restricted, of Grimshaw Road, Failsworth, Manchester, pleaded responsible to breaching Regulation 4 of the Work at Peak Laws 2005.
The agency was handed a £20,000 tremendous on 9 Could at Preston Magistrates’ Courtroom and ordered to pay £5,858.46 in prices.
HSE inspector Sam Eves mentioned: “This incident may so simply have been averted by merely finishing up right management measures and protected working practices.
“Corporations needs to be conscious that HSE won’t hesitate to take applicable enforcement motion towards people who fall beneath the required requirements.”