Bricklayers hurt in makeshift platform collapse

A contractors has been fined £36,000 after two bricklayers fell from height during the construction of a parapet wall.
Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that on 31 October 2019, two employees suffered serious injuries at a property in Over Alderley, Cheshire when the makeshift platform they were working on collapsed.
The two men, along with plywood boards and bricks, fell approximately eight feet to the concrete floor below.The first man sustained fractured ribs, severe bruising an