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Rooflight fall results in fines that hit firms' bottom lines

Howard Fidderman looks at work-at-height failures that resulted in significant fines for all three offenders.

In January 2012, three companies were fined in excess of £1/3 million after their failures led to an electrician's labourer falling 6.5m through a rooflight and sustaining injuries that still trouble him today.