Three men fined for expecting workers to balance on barn roof during repairs

摘要

An incident in which a worker was critically injured in an eight-metre fall from a barn roof resulted in fines for three men involved in the project.rnTrafford Magistrates' Court, sitting on 13 July, heard that John Long, owner of a derelict riding stable in Sale, was acting as project manager to renovate the site into an antiques warehouse. He hired Andrew Oliver to carry out the work who, in turn, sub-contracted Adrian Evens to strip and replace the barn's roof panels. Long was not aware that Evens had been sub-contracted to be responsible for the roof-work and thought he was one of Oliver's employees.