Murray Construction and Development fined £10,000 over injured worker

A Sunderland building firm has been fined £10,000 after one of its employees fell 2.8m from rafters onto a concrete floor.

The worker was standing on a joiner’s stool to help move one of the rafters to accommodate a roof window and lost his balance.

Murray Construction and Development, of Pottery Road, Southwick, pleaded guilty to a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 following the incident.

The employee was working alongside two others in May 2007 at Andes House, Cleadon Village, South Tyneside when the accident happened.

Murray Construction was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to the injured worker and costs of £1,414.