￡42k to pay following scaffolding death fall

摘要

Two employees of a scaffolding firm fell 60 feet from the top of a five-storey building on to the street below, killing one of them instantly. The Central Criminal Court, sitting on 24 February, heard that the building, in Ebury Street, London, was being redecorated and its windows repainted. A contractor had arranged with Crowe Fabrications to provide a roof rig - an unusual type of scaffold consisting of a grid of poles that sits on top of a building and does not touch the ground, enabling painters to winch themselves up and down to reach the windows.