A dairy farm failed to provide adequate protective equipment for a contractor who fell 16 feet through a fragile shed roof in Cornwall.
James Best, 24, was a self-employed labourer at Park Farm in Washaway, near Bodmin. On 12 July 2011, he was asked to help remove fibre-cement roof sheets from a shed, which was being dismantled so it could be rebuilt on another part of the farm.
Martin Dairy Ltd, which owns the farm, failed to create a written safe system of work and supplied Mr Best with inadequate safety equipment. It provided him with scaffold boards instead of crawling boards, which were too narrow.€
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