Worker lost one side of his head and suffered brain damage after demolition work fall.
According to reports in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper and the Construction Enquirer website, Alan Hind,28, has been left with life changing features following the accident which saw his former boss convicted in court last week
The Daily Mail reported that Hind suffered massive head injuries, including extensive skull fractures, a badly broken jaw, a severed optic nerve that left him blind in one eye and irreparable brain damage.
He also suffered kidney damage and was left deaf in one ear following the February 2008 accident.
Surgeons carried out three complex operations and six months after his fall used a titanium plate to replace a large section of shattered skull.
Parts of his brain were so damaged they had to be removed.
At Carlisle Crown Court, a jury convicted Mr Hind’s supervisor Eric Murray, 63, who allowed him to work on the roof of a building at Watt’s Yard, off London Road, Carlisle, without safety equipment or training.
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