A London-based construction company was sentenced this month for safety breaches after a worker was killed.
In November 2015 an employee from Formation Construction Limited was using a concrete breaker at Tech West House in Acton, to make an opening for a stairwell when he fell 7.5 metres, sustaining fatal head injuries.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the work was not properly planned, adequately supervised or carried out in a safe manner when the incident occurred.
Formation Construction Limited pleaded guilty to breaching the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, was fined £300,000 and ordered to pay £17,528 in costs.
HSE inspector Kevin Smith commented on the case, that "this was a tragic and wholly avoidable incident, caused by the failure of the company to implement suitable and sufficient measures to prevent falls".
He added that safeguards put in place were "virtually absent" and "ultimately, the company failed to control the risk on site and as a result one of its workers fell to his death".
