A Poole construction company's been fined after being found not to have had enough saefty precautions in place to prevent a carpenter falling from scaffolding.

P-O Sharps Landscapes have been ordered to pay four thousand pounds plus costs following a Health and Safety Executive investigation.

Sixty year old Michael McCarthy's been left with a steel rod in his back and pins in both feet, after a three-metre fall, which the HSE say could've been prevented by installing guardrails.