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A self-employed roofer has been sentenced after leaving a gas appliance flue in a dangerous condition leading to a carbon monoxide release when he removed a chimney stack from a property<\/h2>\n

Truro Crown Court heard how the self-employed roofer, Mark Reski, trading as MR Roofing & Leadwork, was contracted to remove and rebuild a chimney stack from the roof of a client\u2019s property in Fowey, March 2019.<\/p>\n

The chimney stack was shared between the client\u2019s and a neighbouring property, occupied by a vulnerable elderly woman. In removing the chimney, Reski exposed the flue liner for the gas range within the elderly woman\u2019s property.<\/p>\n

A flue liner was left with a high risk of combustion products, including carbon monoxide, entering the property.<\/p>\n

The flue liner was left in this dangerous state for seven days and was only discovered when a carbon monoxide alarm sounded<\/a> in the elderly woman\u2019s home. A Gas Safe Registered engineer tested the gas range flue and found it to be spilling dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. He classed the situation as \u2018Immediately Dangerous\u2019.<\/p>\n

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive<\/a> (HSE) found that Reski had failed to make any proper or meaningful enquiries into what gas appliances were fluing through the chimney he was working on.<\/p>\n

Mark Reski pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 8(1) of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998. The self-employed roofer has been sentenced to 6 months in prison, suspended for 24 months, fined \u00a35,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a33,000.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Simon Jones, said: \u201cIt should have been obvious to Mr Reski, an experienced roofer, that the chimney that he was working on was fluing a gas appliance when he exposed the flue liner.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Reski made no enquiries whatsoever as to what was fluing through the chimney and his actions put an elderly and vulnerable woman\u2019s life in serious danger. It is only by good fortune that she heard an alarm sounding and called for help and so did not suffer potentially fatal carbon monoxide poisoning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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