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Craig Dickson, 39, from Carlisle, suffered loads of severe fractures, within the incident on Heathlands Industrial Estate, Kingmoor Park, Carlisle, on twenty fifth March 2022.
CK Steelwork & Cladding Ltd become once venture work on the roof of the building. The roof become once identified to be fragile, and, on the time of the incident, safety nets private been being erected below the work space, even supposing this work had not been executed.
Despite this, Mr Dickson become once taken onto the roof by a supervisor to assess the job. While crossing an space of the roof that become once not precise by nets, he stepped onto a veteran skylight that gave manner.
He fell head-first, 10 metres onto the concrete floor below.
Mr Dickson shattered many of the bones in his face, hands, and wrists. He lost four enamel and severely broken his knee. He spent six weeks in intensive care and become once confined to a wheelchair for five months. Since the accident he has persevered fixed pain, and 17 months later is serene unable to work; he isn’t going to ever be in a scheme to come to his used substitute.
“The accident broke every bone in my face and knocked out my front four enamel,” he talked about. “This has made me private zero self belief and major apprehension, which I now must search for a psychiatrist for, every week. My nostril become once badly broken, which has left me with out a sense of smell, and I the truth is private tell respiratory thru it.”
He added: “Earlier than my accident I become once a extremely physically and mentally energetic particular person and attended the fitness center on a day-to-day basis and become once a fervent fell walker and liked to socialize. I’m now left in severe pain and now private apprehension and I’m always anxious and safe it laborious, if not not doable, to enact anything treasure I did earlier than the accident.”
An investigation by the Successfully being & Safety Govt (HSE) found that CK Steelwork & Cladding Ltd of Barras Lane Estate, Dalston, Carlisle, had failed to rob acceptable precautions to be definite the protection of workers on the roof.
The firm pleaded guilty to breaching law 4(1) of the Work at High Regulations 2005. It become once fined £16,000 and ordered to pay £4,462.59 in costs at a listening to at Carlisle Magistrates Court docket on Thirty first August 2023.
HSE inspector Michael Griffiths talked about after the listening to: “This become once a extremely severe incident and it is fortunate Craig wasn’t killed. Work on fragile roofs must be planned and controlled, in every other case there could be a extremely high likelihood of a doubtlessly fatal fall, or one ensuing in existence altering accidents, as we private seen in this case.”
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