Fall through rooflight

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.05.2007

Pottery maker Josiah Wedgwood & Sons has been convicted of failing to protect the safety of a contractor's employee and fined £60,000 plus £17,837 costs. Andrew Cotton fell 6.2 metres through a fragile rooflight, suffering multiple fractures, at Wedgwood's Newcastle-under-Lyme warehouse.

Cotton was working without edge protection or other safety measures.

His employer, Hough Engineering, was also fined £20,000 plus costs of £10,000 at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.