{"id":9366,"date":"2019-11-20T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2019-11-20T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:53:11","slug":"roofer-sentenced-after-dangerous-carbon-monoxide-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/roofer-sentenced-after-dangerous-carbon-monoxide-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Roofer sentenced after dangerous carbon monoxide release"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">A self-employed roofer has been sentenced after leaving a gas appliance flue in an immediately dangerous condition when he removed a chimney stack from a property in March 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Crown Court heard how a roofing company was contracted to remove and rebuild a chimney stack from the roof of a client\u2019s property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The chimney stack was shared between the client\u2019s and a neighbouring property, occupied by a vulnerable elderly woman. In removing the chimney stack, the employee exposed the flue liner for the gas range within the elderly woman\u2019s property. He left the flue liner unsupported, dangling at an angle and exposed to the elements. A flue liner left in this condition would not function correctly, with a high risk of combustion products, including carbon monoxide, entering the property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The flue liner was left in this dangerous state for seven days and was only discovered when a carbon monoxide alarm sounded in the elderly woman\u2019s home. When the fire service entered her house, their carbon monoxide alarms sounded, so they ventilated the property and made it safe by isolating the gas supply. A Gas Safe Registered engineer tested the gas range flue and found it to be spilling dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. He classed the situation as \u2018Immediately Dangerous\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the company had failed to make any proper or meaningful enquiries into what gas appliances were fluing through the chimney he was working on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The company pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 8(1) of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998. He has been sentenced to 6 months in prison, suspended for 24 months, fined \u00a35,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a33,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector said: \u2018It should have been obvious to the company, an experienced roofer, that the chimney that he was working on was fluing a gas appliance when he exposed the flue liner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u2018the gentleman made no enquiries whatsoever as to what was fluing through the chimney and his actions put an elderly and vulnerable woman\u2019s life in serious danger. It is only by good fortune that she heard an alarm sounding and called for help and so did not suffer potentially fatal carbon monoxide poisoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u2018Builders and roofers should be aware that HSE will not hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action against those that fall below the required standard.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Further information about gas safety can be found at www.hse.gov.uk\/gas\/<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-employed roofer has been sentenced after leaving a gas appliance flue in an immediately dangerous condition when he removed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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