The director of
a construction company has been fined for safety failings after a worker fell
from a ladder, resulting in life-changing injuries.
Portsmouth
Magistrates’ Court heard an employee of MP Jacobs fell from a ladder whilst
replacing guttering on a two-storey block of residential flats at Totton Walk,
Havant, on 29 October 2014.
The 30-year-old
fractured his skull, broke his collar bone and suffered a brain haemorrhage.
His injuries caused brain damage and he continues to have problems with memory and
tinnitus. He is still attending hospital and is unable to work.
Martin Paul
Jacobs, director of MP Jacobs Limited, of Edgell Road, Emsworth, was sentenced
in Portsmouth Crown Court and was fined a total of £5,000 and ordered to pay
£5,004 in costs after pleading guilty to an offence under Section 37 of The
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. He was also given a six-month custodial
sentence, suspended for 12 months.
Speaking after
the hearing, Health and Safety Executive inspector Kate Leftly said: “Falls
from height are the most common cause of injuries for those at work, accounting
for nearly three in 10 fatal injuries and nearly 600 major injuries to workers
every year.
“The work
replacing the guttering in this case was not low risk or short duration and
other equipment such as a mobile scaffold tower or mobile elevated working
platform should have been used.”
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