Solar panel company Everyone's Energy UK Limited was fined £28,000 for a worker's fall during solar panel installation in Thornbury, resulting in severe brain injury.

Solar panel company Everyone's Energy UK Limited was fined £28,000 after a worker fell three metres while installing solar panels on a house in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, on July 4, 2022. The worker, aged 41, suffered a fractured skull and severe brain injury, leaving him unable to walk or talk. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found the company failed to properly plan, manage, and monitor the work at height, and did not provide adequate scaffolding or a suitable means to raise materials onto the roof.

March 19, 2024
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