Two companies have been fined a total of £310,000 for their part in a “wholly avoidable” incident after a man suffered life-changing injuries, including an open fracture to his femur and multiple fractures to his pelvis and hips, when he fell from a factory roof.
Brian Robinson, 38, fell through a roof light onto the factory floor below.
The industrial roofer had been attaching cladding to an adjoining building when he fell 9.7 metres.
Mr Robinson, a father-of-three, is still unable to work, more than three years after the incident.
An investigation found the original scaffold that had been constructed on the roof had been removed prior to cladding works being completed.
