Keywords: Abercorn Homes, health and safety, work at height, edge protection, HSE, Sunderland magistrates,

Roofing firm left 50m-long edges unprotected

Jocelyn Dorrell | Prosecutions and Claims |
08.10.2008

Roofing contractor Abercorn Homes has been handed a £23,000 bill for unsafe work at height after an HSE inspector found employees working on a roof that had no edge protection along its 50-metre-long eaves.

In November 2006, three Abercorn employees were carrying out cladding work on ...

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