Two firms have been fined for safety breaches after a solar installer fell from a roof through a scaffold, landing five metres below and sustaining life changing injuries.
Southern Solar and the boss of a firm it subcontracted to carry out an installation have been fined after a 23 year-old operative fell around eight metres through a fragile roof, suffering life-changing injuries that left him in a wheelchair.
Solar installation firm Solarjen has been fined £250,000 and ordered to pay costs after a number of health and safety failings contributed towards a worker’s fall.
