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Fall from roof edge could have been prevented
Thornett Mechanical Services Ltd, of Coventry, has been ordered to pay almost £5k in fines and prosecution costs after an employee fell over 3m whilst constructing the roof of an acoustic booth.
Access to the roof was by mobile tower and the the workplace consisted of two planks at the roof perimeter. The man lost his balance and fell onto a concrete floor below.
HSE investigating inspector Pam Folsom said the company: “failed to carry out a risk assessment or plan a safe system of work. This could have involved fabricating the roof at floor level and lifting it into position so that the perimeter fixings could then be undertaken from the tower scaffold, or erecting edge protection around the roof’s perimeter as the tower scaffold only covered the width of the booth. The injured man had not been trained to work at height and his supervisor had not been trained to conduct risk assessments.”