Collapsing wall knocks labourer down stairwell

A Cumbrian contractor has been fined £60,000 after a wall collapsed knocking a labourer through an open stairwell onto a concrete floor below.
Ace Infra Ltd pleaded guilty after an incident led to employee, Mark Jones, spending a month in hospital recovering from his injuries.
Lancaster Magistrates Court court heard how Jones was sweeping up dust and debris on the first floor of the building at the end of the working day.Earlier boards had been delivered and laid across a large opening in