A company has been fined £100,000 after a labourer was fatally crushed while demolishing a wall.
Jakub Fischer, a self-employed labourer, was hired as a subcontractor by North West Facilities Limited to work on a refurbishment project for Thorndyke Developments Limited at a home on Mansell Road, Kensington. The 41-year-old, originally from the Czech Republic, was tasked with demolishing a rear yard wall dividing the property from the neighbouring house on June 5, 2019.
Other workers left the site at 3.30pm that day. Jakub was discovered trapped between an outer kitchen wall and a collapsed section of the yard wall when a neighbour returned from work at around 5.40pm and was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.
