A roofing company and its director have been fined £75,000 for what a judge described as “gross negligence and slipshod practices’’ which led to the death an employee.
Director Stephen Heaney pleaded guilty last month, on behalf of Ballymena-based H&M Engineering and Roofing Specialists (NI) Ltd, to the corporate manslaughter of Hugh Thomas Jack four years ago.
The 52-year-old also admitted failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare of employees, failing to make appropriate risk assessments, failing to plan and supervise work safely, failing to take suitable measures to prevent a person from falling and failing to report to health and safety authorities within a reasonable time of Mr Jack’s death.