A repair and maintenance company has been fined over health and safety failings after a worker fell from a roof, suffering serious injuries which left his life “irrevocably changed”.
Thomas Marshall suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, along with vertebrae fractures and a broken collar bone, in the incident in Shetland in October 2018, and continues to suffer ongoing effects due to the head injury.
Shetland-based G&A Leask pleaded guilty to contraventions of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday and was fined £9,000.
