Fatality at food firm costs construction firms £286k
Two construction firms – Premier Roofing Systems Ltd and A-Lift Crane Hire Ltd – have been ordered to pay more than £286,000 on June 29, after a fatality at a food distribution centre.
A-lift Crane employee Peter Smith fell 8m through an unprotected skylight on a job that Premier Roofing was carrying out at Virani Foods in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire in August 2013. He died as a result of his injuries
During the prosecution at Northamptonshire Crown Court, judge Rupert Mayo, sentencing, said: “ALift should have scoped this properly during a visit to the site on August 7.
“In simple terms, no employee should have been allowed up there until the Yeoman boards were available.”
Premier Roofing Systems of Corby was fined £140,250 and ordered to pay costs of £41,428. A-Lift Crane Hire of Wilby, Northamptonshire, was fined £83,300 and ordered to pay costs of £21,500.
