Worker falls through scaffold safety rail

A fit out contractor has been fined after an employee suffered multiple fractures after falling fifteen feet from scaffolding.
Manchester Magistrates Court heard on the 24 October 2019, an employee of TA Knox Shopfitters Ltd was working from a tower scaffold at the front of the Footasylum Store in the Trafford Centre, Manchester, when the scaffold moved throwing him off balance.
He fell backwards against the safety rail of the scaffold, which gave way and he fell fifteen feet to the ground. The