Fatal-fall scaffold was 'not up to the job'

摘要

Two building companies have been fined a total of £85,000 after a steeplejack fell 50 metres to his death during a scaffold collapse in Bolton. Manchester Crown Court heard Bailey International Steeplejack Company Ltd had been contracted to carry out repairs on a disused Edwardian chimney at Swan Lane Mills in Great Leaver. On 4 June 2007, John Alty, 40, and another worker were dismantling scaffolding, which had been erected around the chimney. They began lowering parts of the scaffold to the ground with a winch, while standing on the remaining part of the scaffolding.