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Building company fined £30k for worker's fall



Those looking to secure personal injury compensation might be interested to learn that a building company and its director have been fined £30,000 following a worker's accident.

Nicholas Roberts, a builder, fell almost 30-feet from scaffolding at a site in Llanfairfechan.

As a consequence, JBB Homes - based in Stockport - was prosecuted following a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation.

The hearing at Llandudno Magistrates' Court resulted in director James Burt being fined £10,000 for breaching Section 37(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

In its analysis, HSE discovered that Mr Roberts was undertaking work in a bid to replace a lintel when he suffered the accident.

He was left with a fractured pelvis, some broken teeth and bruises.

A previous HSE investigation resulted in Strata Homes Yorkshire being fined £30,000 after bricklayer Anton Burrows was paralysed from the chest down after being hit by a 660 pound steel beam.

Posted by Isobel Whitely
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