Andrezej Buraczewski death leads to scaffold safety fines

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Andrezej Buraczewski’s death led to scaffold safety fines at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 23 April 2021, when Colin Wendel Developments Ltd was fined €40,000 after pleading guilty to a workplace safety offence.

The company’s managing director, Colin Wendel, was fined €5,000 after a similar guilty plea and undertook to pay €20,000 compensation to Mr Buraczewski’s widow. Mr Buraczewski died aged 45 after falling from a roof-level scaffold at a construction site in Rathgar, Dublin 6, on 24 October 2016; the Health and Safety Authority found that appropriate safety measures were not all in place.