Company fined £50,000 after a worker falls to death
Tuesday 14th July 2026
The employee was working as a labourer on site when he fell from a scaffolding platform through a window void. The worker fell more than three metres and landed on an internal concrete floor and died from his injuries several days later.
The HSE found that window voids had been created to install Juliet-style doors. The doors delivered were unsuitable so were not installed and the voids remained longer than anticipated. Protective boarding over the voids was only installed hours after the incident.
Protective boarding should have been installed as soon as the voids had been created. Furthermore, the company failed to organise mandatory weekly scaffolding inspections which missed another opportunity to identify the voids.
The company pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 13(1) of The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and was fined £50,000 and ordered to pay £11,347 in costs.