Fall from height: construction boss jailed for failing to provide safe equipment for working at height.(A and E Buildings of Knighton)

Publication: The Safety & Health Practitioner

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The boss of a construction company has been jailed for 18 months for manslaughter following the death of an employee in a fall from a a faulty telehandler.

Wayne Davies, proprietor of A & E Buildings of Knighton, Powys, was sentenced at Hereford Crown Court on 20 January in a case brought by the Crown Prosecution Service following a joint investigation by Staffordshire police and the HSE.

The court heard that Mark Jones, 40, and two other men had been working at roof height installing a roof on a steel-framed agricultural barn on a...

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