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£5,000 bill for Tees firm scaffolding collapse
by Simon Walton, Evening Gazette
Mar 19 2011
1ShareAdd a commentRecommend A CONSTRUCTION firm which breached health and safety laws has been ordered to pay more than £5,000 after a grandmother was buried under scaffolding.

Billingham-based Ashbrook Construction Services failed to ensure the scaffolding was inspected before and at regular intervals after work began on the Newcastle site.

The scaffolding, incorrectly erected by another firm - Skyline - then collapsed and left 70-year-old Mary Scott with crippling injuries.

“I’ll never be the woman I was – I’ve lost a lot of confidence”, said Mary. As a result of the incident two years ago, Mary spent 12 days in hospital recovering from two breaks to her leg, two breaks to her hip, puncture wounds to her ankle and severe bruising.

Health and Safety Executive inspector Rob Hirst, prosecuting, said: “This incident could, and should, have been prevented.

“The lady was seriously injured and was lucky not to be killed as a result of this incident and things could have been even worse had the scaffolding collapsed when workers were using it.

“Skyline Scaffolding Ltd failed to erect the scaffolding properly by not securing it adequately and Ashbrook Construction Services Ltd failed to ensure the scaffolding was inspected before work began and then regularly once it was in progress.”

Ashbrook, of Leeholme Industrial Estate, Cowpen Lane, Billingham, pleaded guilty at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act. The firm was fined £3,000 and must pay £2,091.15 costs.

Skyline, which went into liquidation after the accident, was convicted of the same breach and a second offence of breaching the Work at Height Regulations. It was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £4,182 costs.

Suzanne Drinkwater, representing Ashbrook, said the company had since invested significant amounts of money in retraining staff.

An Ashbrook statement said: “This was an unfortunate accident and the company’s thoughts are with the injured party.”


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Is this the same storey or is this granny just lucky? LOL

Its rework of Uncle Alberts falling down the pub cellar scam
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