A self-employed builder and fitter using a tower scaffold erected on top of a freight container fell to the ground while ascending from it. Employed on the project to refurbish an agricultural building in Newgate Street, Hertfordshire, he suffered a head injury which has blinded him in one eye.
Contractors Balsham (Buildings) Ltd of High Street, Balsham, Cambridge admitted breaching S.3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and r.4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 for which it was fined £7,000 plus £8832 costs at Watford Magistrates’ Court.
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