Three firms in the dock for contractor’s roof fall
Three companies have been fined a total of £336,000 after a worker fell six and a half metres through a fragile rooflight at a factory in Dundee.
Christopher Carson, 23, was working as an electrician’s labourer for Robert A.S. Crockett and Partners Ltd, when the incident took place on 3 October 2008. The company had been contracted by Electroguard Security Systems to fit a lighting system as part of a larger project at Dundee Cold Stores Ltd’s factory at Kingsway West, Dundee.€
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Three firms in the dock for contractor’s roof fall
Three companies have been fined a total of £336,000 after a worker fell six and a half metres through a fragile rooflight at a factory in Dundee.
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