Kenneth Armitage died when he fell through a hole left by an employee of Cooper & Westgate in the floor of his first-floor bathroom, Leeds Crown Court heard.
His daughter will never forget the moment she found him lying on his kitchen floor covered in blood, Judge Ray Singh told the court. She gave him details of the treatment she has received to help her cope with the trauma she experienced.
The judge said the Heworth company's procedures had “serious and systematic failures in any jobs that were carried out in bathrooms of this nature on first floors.”
It had not carried out any risk assessment for the conversion of Mr Armitage's bathroom into a wet room and didn't recognise it as being a "work at height" procedure and therefore didn't include safety practices for "work at height".
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