Wolverhampton firm pays £8,000 compensation to employee for accident at work.

16:43:00 Thursday 14th May 2009

A Wolverhampton firm has been ordered to pay £8,000 accident compensation after an employee fell 6 metres from an overhead crane onto a concrete floor in June 2008.

The firm pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches after the employee, who working on the cross travel beam of the crane to clean built up dirt, fell and sustained multiple injuries.

As well as several fractures to his skull, the man suffered a broken collarbone and several broken ribs. He has not yet returned to work following the accident.

An investigating inspector from the HSE said: “Falls from height remain the single biggest cause of workplace deaths and one of the main causes of major injury, but the vast majority of these accidents are preventable if companies assess the risks properly.

“The most common causes of falls from height involve failure to recognise a problem, provide safe systems of work, ensure that these systems are followed and provide adequate information, instruction, training or supervision. There really is no excuse for this.”

The firm was also ordered to pay £3,532 in costs.

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