Housebuilder fined £300,000 after worker falls through unprotected stairwell

Domestic housebuilder Hillbeck Homes (Sowerby Bridge) Ltd has been fined £300,000 after a 24-year-old temporary labourer sustained life-changing spinal injuries when he fell through an unprotected stairwell void on a residential development site.

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