Daniel Jenner, trading as Jenner Roofing & Building Services, has received an eight-month suspended sentence after a worker fell four metres through a rooflight to the concrete floor below.
The incident occurred on 12th August 2023, when a worker was carrying out work on behalf of Jenner Roofing & Building Services at an industrial estate in High Wycombe, working alone to clean and repair gutters and drains.
While walking next to the unguarded edges of the roof, he approached a fragile roof covering above a service road. He stepped onto a rooflight, fell through it, and sustained serious, life-changing injuries including a fractured skull and cheekbone, a fractured leg and a broken wrist.
An investigation by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) found that Daniel Jenner had failed to implement any work-at-height measures to prevent workers from falling from the unguarded edges of the roof or through the fragile roof itself. There were no measures in place to mitigate for either the distance or the impact of a fall.
Daniel Jenner, trading as Jenner Roofing and Building Services, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005. He received an eight-month suspended sentence, was ordered to complete 280 hours of unpaid work and to pay 拢500 in costs at a hearing at High Wycombe Magistrates鈥� Court on Wednesday 21st January 2026.
HSE lead inspector Sophie Neale said after the hearing: 鈥淭his was a tragic but avoidable incident, where an individual suffered life-changing injuries due to working at height. Had suitable control measures been implemented, such as fall prevention or fall mitigation measures, this incident would not have occurred.
鈥淭his prosecution highlights ongoing safety failures in the construction industry, where working at height remains one of the leading causes of workplace injury and death.鈥�