A subcontractor fell more than five metres from a crane ladder after suffering an electric shock at one of the UK’s largest timber merchants, a court heard.

Mechanical fitter, David Minor, suffered a catalogue of injuries including a broken vertebra as a result of the incident, Bury St Edmunds Magistrates’ Court heard today.

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