{"id":15787,"date":"2022-04-27T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compass.acceler8showcase.co.uk\/?p=15787"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:25:07","slug":"company-fined-after-worker-suffered-fall-from-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/company-fined-after-worker-suffered-fall-from-height\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Fined After Worker Suffered Fall From Height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infiniti Roofing and Construction Ltd has pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3 (1) of the Health &amp; Safety at Work etc Act 1974, after a 20 year old labourer feel 3 metres through a gap in scaffolding whilst working on a roof on 15th November 2017, sustaining injuries which resulted in several operations. This took place after the labourer had stumbled whilst moving insulation panels on the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Although, the company had taken measures to reduce the risk of a fall, the scaffolding did not fully extend along the roof in the area where the insulation panels were stacked and stored.<\/p>\n<p>After the hearing, HSE Inspector Jayne Towey commented: \u201cThe accident could have been prevented if edge protection, constructed and installed to industry standards, was in place where there was a risk of a fall from height.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company has been fined \u00a322,667 and ordered to pay \u00a37,228 in costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infiniti Roofing and Construction Ltd has pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3 (1) of the Health &amp; Safety at Work etc Act 1974, after a 20 year old labourer feel 3 metres through a gap in scaffolding whilst working on a roof on 15th November 2017, sustaining injuries which resulted in several operations. This took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compass-ms.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}