The director of a construction company has been given a suspended prison sentence after a construction worker was crushed by plasterboard sheets each weighing 32kg, fracturing his pelvis.
Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard that on 12 April 2019, subcontractors were moving sheets of plasterboard weighing 32kg each from the ground floor to the second floor of a house undergoing refurbishment in Thames Ditton, Surrey.
As there was no staircase in place, they were stacking the plasterboard against an unsecured ladder and sliding them up to the floor above. During the process the plasterboards fell on the worker, fracturing his pelvis.
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