Demolition company hit by fine following fall from first floor.
UK trade magazine Construction News is reporting that Stoke-on-Trent based demolition firm G Baskerville has been fined £8,000 at Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates’ Court after an employee suffered life-threatening injuries falling from the first floor of a building under construction in October 2008.
The unnamed man was using a power saw at Barnfields Industrial Estate in Leek, Staffordshire, when he fell through the side of the building to the ground on 30 October last year.
An investigation showed the walls of the building had been removed and there was an inadequately positioned steel girder around the sides.
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