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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined two companies a total of £170,000 after a 23-year-old worker suffered a severe personal injury to his back in a work accident which has left him paralysed from the waist down.
The HSE prosecuted a steel construction company from Coventry as well as a steel assembly company from Northamptonshire after the incident on February 8 2007 in Glossop, Derbyshire.
The injured worker fell more than nine metres through a skylight after checking a rain gauge on a roof. The victim still suffers back pain from the spinal injuries he suffered in the fall and is now dependant on a wheelchair for mobility.
Both companies were fined by the HSE for breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
An HSE spokesperson, said: "Incidents like this fall are entirely avoidable. Falling from height is one of the most obvious and well-known dangers for those working on roofs."
Statistics from the HSE's Shattered Lives campaign show that 10,000 people suffered a personal injury after a fall from height in 2008-2009.
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