A
loft-conversion company has been fined £325,000 after a teenage
labourer plunged to his death from dangerous scaffolding.
Alfie
Perrin ,16, from Enfield, north London was working for Rooftop Rooms
Ltd when he suffered fatal head injuries in a fall from a rear roof.
The
company, also based in Enfield, was convicted of failing to to ensure
the health, safety and welfare of employee Alfie at the Camden Road,
Leytonstone site on November 14, 2012.
An
employee of the company, Andrew Voy, 36, was found not guilty of
manslaughter.
The
company pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court and was also
ordered to pay two sets of costs, totalling over £19,000.
The
London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance helicopter
attended and treated Alfie, but he later died in hospital.
The
death was investigated by officers from the Metropolitan Police's
Homicide and Major Crime Command together with the Health and Safety
Executive (HSE).
It
was established Alfie had been instructed to clear rubbish and timber
off-cuts from the rear roof area of the two storey house.
He
did this by transferring them over the flat roof of the dormer
extension and down the pitched roof at the front of the house, from
where he was told to throw the material into the skip on the ground.
There
was no edge protection around the flat dormer roof and the scaffold
platform had a large gap at one end where a ladder should have been
fitted or scaffold poles used to reduce the risk of falls.
Neither
a ladder nor scaffold poles were in place.
Alfie
fell to his death after throwing a bag of rubble from the scaffold
platform into the skip.
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