An egg supplier failed to take any steps to prevent workers from falling through an opening in the floor of a poultry barn in Shropshire.
A 43-year-old worker was working at Staveley’s Eggs Ltd’s facility in Stoke-on-Tern, when the incident took place on 26 July 2011. The company was undertaking a refurbishment project to replace floors in its poultry barns with metal gratings, but it failed to created a written method of work.
On the day of the incident, a section of flooring had been removed behind a door on the first floor, which connected two barns. There were no warning signs or edge protection around the hole in the floor, and staff were unaware that part of the floor was missing.€
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