The 40-year-old man was working to clean dirt from the cross travel beam of an overhead crane in June 2008, when he fell and suffered multiple fractures to his skull, a broken collarbone and several broken ribs.
MES pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has used the case to highlight the dangers of working at height and call on employers to make sure they are assessing situations and providing adequate systems and checks to ensure worker safety.
“The most common causes of falls from height involve failure to recognise a problem, provide safe systems of work, ensure that these systems are followed and provide adequate information, instruction, training or supervision,” said HSE’s investigating inspector David Evans. “There really is no excuse for this.”
