Taylor Wimpey fined £800k after apprentice falls down stairwell

Taylor Wimpey has been fined £800,000 after a teenage apprentice was injured when a temporary stairwell covering collapsed.
Charlie Marsh, 17, had been working as a contractor on a Taylor Wimpey site as it built around 450 new homes on its Meadfields site in Weston-Super-Mare.
The apprentice bricklayer, from Whitchurch in Bristol, was less than 12 months into his career when the incident happened.An HSE investigation found that on 22 August 2023 Marsh had been loading concrete blocks onto