Client fined £80,000 over roofer death
A client has been fined £80,000 after a roofer died while working on a factory roof.
Pearsons Glass was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for failing to ensure the contractor it hired had devised a safe system of work.
The worker was completing snagging work on a replacement roof at the Pearsons Glass-owned property in Kirkdale, Liverpool, on 22 May 2017 when he fell six metres. He had accessed a part of the old roof made of fragile asbestos cement sheets that gave way.
A statement from the HSE said its investigation found the area accessed did not have safety nets fitted, and the building occupier failed to take reasonably practicable measures to reduce the risk to those working on the roof.
Glass firm fined £80,000 after worker fell to his death through roof
Marius Andrus was carrying out snagging repairs at Pearsons Glass in Kirkdale who admitted health and safety failings
The tragedy at Pearsons Glass, Maddrell street Liverpool.
Photograph Geoff Davies. (Image: Geoff Davies)
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