A North Yorkshire company faces a £23,408 court bill for a health and safety breach that left its employee in hospital with life changing injuries.
Peter Bettison, 54, suffered a fractured skull, punctured lung and several other injuries. He spent 22 days in hospital, was off work for eight months and is still suffering from the after affects.
Mr Bettison was installing solar panels with a colleague on an Ilkley farm building roof when he fell.
A HSE investigation discovered that even though the company had identified the presence of the rooflight when carrying out two site surveys, it had failed to take any action to protect the workers from falling through the rooflights.
The company pleaded guilty to a health and safety breach and was fined the maximum fine available to magistrates of £20,000 and ordered to pay £3,0408 prosecution costs to the HSE.
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