Glenfield Intermediate School. Photo: Supplied / Google Maps
The North Shore District Court has fined a scaffolding business $100,000 after an Auckland roofer was badly injured in a fall while on the job.
A 54-year-old man was replacing a roof at Auckland's Glenfield Intermediate School in January 2020.
He fell more than three metres onto concrete after a guard-rail he grabbed to steady himself came away.
The man spent 10 days in hospital with fractured ribs, vertebrae, sternum and pelvis, and a haematoma near his eye.
His full recovery took more than a year.
WorkSafe found the scaffolding company, TPL Access, had not followed manufacturer's guidelines or industry standards to install the rail.
The company will also pay the injured man $43,000 in reparations.
