Compensation for scaffold fall

An electrician has been awarded £34,000 for the injuries he sustained when he fell from a scaffold on a building site. He was working from a mobile scaffold two metres from the ground repairing cabling when he was injured. As he was handing a drill to a colleague, he lent on the scaffold brace, which gave way and he fell on to the concrete floor, landing on his right elbow. His elbow was dislocated and the bone was shattered in the fall. The scaffold had not been erected correctly and neither the electrical contractors nor the construction contractors for the site would take responsibility for the accident.