Magistrates order Harron Homes of Birchwood Park Warrington to pay over £22,000 after bricklayers were buried under a wall.

Harron Homes were found guilty of health and safety breaches after four members of a bricklaying gang were injured when the first floor of the two-storey house in which they were working collapsed. The incident happened on 11 October 2004 at a Harron Homes site in Merseyside.
 
Robert Hodkinson, HM Inspector of Health and Safety who investigated the accident said: "House builders and others who use joist hangers should make sure that they have carried out an adequate assessment of the risks associated with using joist hangers in the particular buildings they are working on.
 
He added: "A suitable and sufficient risk assessment, taking account of manufacturers instructions, should enable them to develop safe systems of work. Those working on construction sites of this type should be fully informed of the safe systems of work to follow."