Steel fixer crushed by blockwork wall collapse

A construction company has been fined £100,000 after a steel-fixer was seriously injured when a newly built blockwork wall collapsed at a site in Poole.
Matrod Frampton Limited pleaded guilty at Bristol Magistrates’ Court after the incident left 69-year-old Patrick Grant with life-changing injuries.
The court heard how the breeze block wall had been back-filled too early, before the mortar had properly set. The wall collapsed while Grant was working nearby, crushing him against the c