Worker Injured After Falling Through a Roof Skylight | Toledo Ohio Workers’ Compensation Attorney

23-year-old Martin Mundie was helping convert a pig shed into a workshop when he fell through the skylight in the roof, to the concrete floor and broke his arm and his wrist.

When he was taken to the hospital, he needed a bone graft and two operations to insert three plates and six pins.

Mundie’s boss, Joseph Adams, was fined $4500 for health and safety violations which contributed to the accident.

A Health and Safety Executive investigation found that Adams had not assessed any of the risks for his employees, had not put any safety measures in place or given his workers any safety equipment.

Alan Mackinnon, an inspector, said: "Mundie has been left with significant and lasting injuries that could easily have been avoided if Joseph Adams had thought about the obvious risks involved when working on a roof.

He did not provide any equipment to allow the men to work on the roof safely.

He could have arranged for his employees to work from a mobile elevated work platform, wear safety harnesses while they were on the roof or for properly fixed crawling boards with barriers to be used. Not providing any of these safeguards is simply unacceptable.

If Joseph Adams had taken simple safety measures, Mundie would not have sustained these injuries."

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