Liability insurance news: Fine issued after employees fall
Commercial insurance
23rd March 2010
Liability insurance is a key consideration for any business - but one man has been fined after two of his employees fell while working on a Salisbury property.
According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Malcolm Shaun Foyle of Malraymar, Duck Street, was prosecuted for the incident that took place on August 15th 2008.
The members of staff fell from the upstairs of the building because their temporary platform - two scaffold planks resting on a piece of wood screwed into a partition wall - collapsed.
It was located above a stairwell that had been removed and, when a second worker joined the one already there, the screws gave way.
Mr Foyle was ordered to pay costs of £1,000 and a fine of £2,000 after admitting to a breach of Regulation 4 of the Work at Height Regulations 2005.
"Incidents like this are easily prevented if the correct measures are taken to make sure that employees are not put at risk," said HSE principal inspector Andrew Kingscott.
"Falls from height remain the largest cause of fatal and serious injuries in the construction industry."
HSE statistics show some 131,895 injuries to employees were sustained in the year 2008-9.
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