A Kent contractor has been prosecuted after a worker fell three metres through an unprotected stairwell opening.<\/p>\n
Folkestone Magistrates\u2019 Court\u00a0heard that on 17 August 2017,\u00a0a subcontractor to Brown Construction Ltd. was laying bricks for the second storey of a new build house\u00a0in\u00a0Ash, Canterbury.<\/p>\n
There was an opening in the floor where the stairs were to be installed.<\/p>\n
The worker slipped and fell through the opening and landed on his feet shattering his left heel, which required surgery to repair.<\/p>\n
An HSE investigation found that no measures had been taken to prevent workers from falling from height through the stairwell opening.<\/p>\n
Brown Construction Ltd of Maidstone pleaded guilty to breaching safety regulations and were fined\u00a0 \u00a317,333.<\/p>\n
Speaking following the hearing, HSE inspector Ross Carter commented: \u201cIn this case a worker suffered serious injuries which could have been avoided by taking simple measures, such as installing guardrails around the opening, to prevent workers falling from height.\u201d<\/p>\n
from Construction Enquirer http:\/\/bit.ly\/2VoK2Ej<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Kent contractor has been prosecuted after a worker fell three metres through an unprotected stairwell opening. Folkestone Magistrates\u2019 Court\u00a0heard that on 17 August 2017,\u00a0a subcontractor to Brown Construction Ltd. was laying bricks for the second storey of a new build house\u00a0in\u00a0Ash, Canterbury. There was an opening in the floor where the stairs were to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}