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A builder has been fined £2,000 after two of his workers were photographed on a house roof in Burnley without safety measures in place.
Mohammed Yasin, who trades as Southfield Property Maintenance, was prosecuted by HSE following the incident at a semi-detached house on Matlock Grove on 10th April 2014.
Burnley Magistrates’ Court heard that a passing HSE inspector spotted the men installing a dormer window for a loft conversion at the property.
Mr Yasin, 39, was inside the house and his two workers were close to the chimney on the outside, without any scaffolding or other safety measures to prevent them from being injured in a fall.
PROVIDER FACES HSE North Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust (NEPUFT) has been fined £10,000 for safety failings after a resident with a history of trying to escape fell from the first floor window of a secure unit in Harlow.
The 18-year-old suffered two fractures to her back and a dislocated right knee after falling a distance of three-and-a-half metres from her dormitory bedroom window at the Derwent Centre on 27th July 2013.
Colchester Magistrates’ Court heard the incident could have been prevented had a window restrictor on her bedroom dormitory window been properly set to the required 100mm.
Speaking after the hearing HSE Inspector Kim Tichias, said: “There have been a number of similar accidents in recent years, including fatalities, and any windows that are accessible to vulnerable people should be restrained so that they cannot be opened far enough to allow people to fall out. ”
RETIRED WORKER
CRUSHED TO DEATH A Kilmarnock employer has been fined £20,000 for safety failings after a worker was crushed to death when a heavy gate came off its hinges and fell onto him.
Malcolm Macdonald Kennedy, 69, of Riccarton, Kilmarnock, a retired fitter, had been working on a casual basis for Alistair Thomas Corrie, who trades as A Corrie Skip Hire, for around eight years when the incident happened in 2011.
Mr Kennedy was often the first to arrive at the firm’s premises and used his own set of keys to open up the gates. It appears that when Mr Kennedy opened a set of double gates at the side of the compound, one of the 180kg gates came off its hinges and fell on top of him.
Mr Kennedy was found an hour later by another employee after he saw that one of the gates was lying on the ground and went to investigate. Despite attempts by paramedics to resuscitate Mr Kennedy, he was later pronounced dead at the scene.
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