Category: Fall from Height

Window cleaner falls from open window when the sash window falls on his hands

When the employer was wrong to assume that the window cleaner should have known better ...

When the ladder wasn’t just unsafe, it was a death trap ...

When the risk of falling is bad enough, but the risk is amplified when working with a gas-powered nail gun ...

When working close to a well at ground level is an example of working at height ...

When it was not only foreseeable that a blind person would walk down the street, it was ‘reasonably foreseeable’. ...

When ‘no one has suggested that every playground for every 3-4 year-old must have a flat surface and nothing from ...

When an employer’s duty of care extends beyond working hours ...

When the pictures taken by the public revealed the shocking level of risk the workers were exposed to ...

When the legal right for the woman to get a bit of fresh air in should have been risk assessed ...

When contradictory claims by both sides means the final decision will probably rest in the courts ...