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Scaffolding Firm and Director Fined For Scaffolders Death

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A Watford based scaffolding company has been fined following an incident where a scaffolder fell five metres and suffered a fatal head injury.

Southwark Crown Court heard how, on 16 February 2017, two workers employed by Wembley Scaffolding Services Ltd were dismantling a scaffold on Cricklewood Broadway, London.

During the dismantling, the scaffold collapsed resulting in one of the workers falling at least five metres onto a concrete pavement. The man sustained serious head injuries, he later died from these injuries on 4 March 2017.

An investigation led by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Wembley Scaffolding Services Limitedโ€™s director, Sean Chapple, failed to carry out a suitable risk assessment, plan the work and provide a design for erection and dismantling of the scaffold.

Sean Chapple himself was not knowledgeable about the measures required to do this without putting people at risk and therefore didnโ€™t follow the correct measures to ensure safe erection and dismantling of the scaffold.

Wembley Scaffolding Services Limited based in Watford pleaded guilty to breaching the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and the Health and Safety at work etc. Act 1974. The company was fined ยฃ7,860 and ordered to pay costs of ยฃ8,940.

Its Director, Sean Chapple pleaded guilty to breaching the Work at Height Regulations 2005; sections 33(1)(a) and 37(1) of the Act; Section 33(2) and Schedule 3A to the Act (as amended by section 1 of the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008. He was fined ยฃ1,000, received a 12-week prison sentence suspended for one year and was ordered to pay costs of ยฃ11,000.

After the hearing, HSE inspector Saif Deen said: โ€œThis tragic incident led to the avoidable death of a young man. The case highlights the importance of following industry guidance in order to design and erect scaffolding in a safe manner, to prevent risk to workers using the scaffold. The death could have been prevented had the employer acted to identify and manage the risks involved, and to put a safe system of work in place.โ€

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