A Gloucester building contractor has been fined after employees were found to have lifted heavy building materials at height with no measures to prevent falls in place.

HSE inspectors visited a site in Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, in December 2009 and found structural steelwork weighing 92kg had been lifted into place using only scaffolding only five feet high during construction of a house extension.

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