AdvertisementThe Health & Safety Executive launched an investigation which found Davis Industrial Roofing Limited, the company Mr May was subcontracting for, hadn't carried out correct control measures. The work was poorly supervised and carried out unsafely.
Melvyn Davis, the sole director of the company, had regularly visited to monitor progress but “had failed to provide suitable and sufficient fall protection measures and consented to the use of an unsafe system of work”, the HSE said . Davis, of Field Place, Wakefield, pleaded guilty to a breach of health and safety at Sheffield Magistrates and was sentenced to eight weeks in jail suspended for 12 months and ordered to do 15 days of rehabilitation activity.
Davis Industrial Roofing Limited pleaded guilty to a breach of health and safety and was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £12,557.Speaking afterwards, HSE Inspector Chris Gallagher said: “This incident could so easily have been avoided by simply carrying out correct control measures and safe working practices.