Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard that, on 15th April 2019, the contractor changed into once standing on the roof of a partially demolished single-storey extension of a dwelling in Cobham, Surrey that changed into once being refurbished. While he changed into once on the roof, it collapsed and he smashed up his correct leg. The injure changed into once so noxious that his leg changed into once later amputated above the knee.
An investigation by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) chanced on that there changed into once no safe machine of labor in blueprint, because the demolition work had now now not been adequately planned. The steadiness of the structure at some point of the demolition work had now now not been assessed, and there have been no measures in blueprint to cease falls from the roof.
Patrick Sheehan of Walton Avenue, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, buying and selling as Mastercraft Building Services and products, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3 (2) of the Health and Safety at Work And so on Act 1974. He changed into once fined £20,000 and ordered to pay expenses of £4,383.
HSE inspector Leah Sullivan said after the hearing: “The contractor’s injuries have been lifestyles-altering and he could perhaps even have without considerations been killed. This serious incident and the devastating results on his lifestyles, could perhaps even have been shunned if standard safe systems of labor been establish in blueprint.”
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