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A businessman from Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, Wales, has been fined after an employee sustained severe personal injuries in a fall from height accident at work.
The 24-year-old worker from Nottingham was assisting in the construction of a new roof at a farm when he stepped backwards and fell through a PVC skylight, landing five and a half metres below.
As a result of the work accident, the employee suffered two broken bones in his spine, a fractured pelvis and required stitches to an arm injury sustained in the fall.
His personal injuries were so serious that he has been forced to seek alternative employment as he can no longer continue in his job as a steel erector.
The man's employer appeared at Ammanford Magistrates' Court after failing to notify the Health and Safety Executive of the work accident.
The business owner was subsequently prosecuted by the HSE and fined £6,500 and ordered to pay a total of £2,651 in court costs as a result of the fall from height accident.
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