{"id":103634,"date":"2022-01-14T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T09:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=103634"},"modified":"2022-01-14T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T09:18:47","slug":"falling-from-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/falling-from-height\/103634\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction worker has died after falling from height"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Peter Saunders Builders Ltd has been fined \u00a316,000 for breaching Work at Height Regulations, after an employee has died after falling from height<\/h2>\n<p>Cambridge Magistrates Court heard how, on 15 September 2017, Sean Harding was working from a mobile tower levelling a steel beam that was seated on a door lintel. This involved using a crowbar to lever the beam up for a work colleague to insert a metal packer into the gap. Mr Harding caught his jacket sleeve on the tower, lost his balance, and fell over a single guard rail and down to ground level.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to hospital but died three months later due to medical complications.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health and Safety Executive<\/a> found that the mobile tower wasn\u2019t configured correctly for the task due to the limited headroom and that double guard rails could have been used.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Saunders Builders Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 8 (a) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and was fined \u00a316,000 with \u00a35,139.80 costs.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018One of the most common causes of work-related fatalities\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Stephen Hartley said: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/employee-falls-from-scaffolding\/99735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Falls from height<\/a> remain one of the most common causes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/health-and-safety-tips\/103194\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">work-related fatalities<\/a> in this country and the risks associated with working at height are well known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose in control of work have a responsibility to select access equipment that is suitable for the task and the work environment and ensure that it is safely used.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Saunders Builders Ltd has been fined \u00a316,000 for breaching Work at Height Regulations, after an employee has died after falling from height.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[676,432,564],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-health-safety","9":"tag-hse"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Construction worker has died after falling from height<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peter Saunders Builders Ltd has been fined \u00a316,000 for breaching Work at Height Regulations, after an employee has died after falling from height\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/falling-from-height\/103634\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction worker has died after falling from height\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peter Saunders Builders Ltd has been fined \u00a316,000 for breaching Work at Height Regulations, after an employee has died after falling from height\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/falling-from-height\/103634\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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