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Church council fined for volunteer’s fall

Officers from Gravesham Borough Council discovered that the most recent checks on the structure of St Botolph’s Church in Northfleet in 2007 had identified that beetles were attacking part of the tower’s wooden floor.
The subsequent report recommended further investigation into the infestation’s spread.
But despite the inclusion of this advice in a list of works requiring immediate attention, the Parochial Church Council (PCC) failed to act.
When the floor later gave way in July last year, volunteer Tony Cresswell broke two bones in his back, and suffered a broken leg and shattered heel.
Gravesham Council’s regulatory services department prosecuted the PCC for breaching Section 4 of the Health and Safety at Work Act by failing to maintain the structure of the church safely so that it did not put people at risk.
Dartford magistrates fined the PCC £3000 with £685 costs after it admitted the charge.
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