No excuse for fall from height accident at work
August 23, 2010
Posted by:Cheryl Abrahams
Today there is so much useful information available to employers about how to prevent employees having to bring an accident at work claim. Therefore there was no excuse for the appalling risks the Stoke on Trent steeplejack Kevin Ford was required to take whilst at work. He fell from a tower scaffold following an accident at work. The tower’s guard rail was too low and did not have the correct scaffold and toe boards in place. He had to walk across a fragile asbestos sheet roof using boards just 45cm wide with no safety measures in place. He had an accident at work which left him with an injury to his heel which required 16 pins to be inserted into the bone. He was very lucky not to have suffered a more serious injury in this accident at work.