High school fined after pupil’s climbing wall injury

High school fined after pupil’s climbing wall injury

An Essex high school has been fined for safety failings after a 14-year-old boy fell more than four metres from a climbing wall.

The teenager was one of four pupils selected to try their first-ever ‘lead climb’, a more advanced, mainly rock-climbing technique, during a PE lesson at Manningtree High School on 17 October 2012.