An electrical engineer has received £450,000 in compensation from his former employers following a four-metre fall which left him with shattered ankles.
Keith Waring, who had been working for home improvement company Rhino, was up a ladder removing some cabling from the outside of a house when it came away and he lost his balance, falling four metres to the paved patio below.
He landed on his feet, but the force of the impact left him with such serious fractures that he had to have his left leg amputated below the knee.
"Mr. Waring should have been given scaffolding or a harness to make sure he was safe and should not have been asked to carry out a dangerous task he had not been given training for", said David Urpeth, head of workplace injuries at law firm Irwin Mitchell.
After Irwin Mitchell lodged a claim for compensation on Waring’s behalf, Rhino admitted liability and paid him £450,000 damages, which his lawyers said would be used for his future care and rehabilitation.