THE Health and Safety Executive is to investigate a scaffolding accident that saw an injured man rescued by firefighters in Slough.

The drama unfolded shortly before 5pm on Thursday July 28, when the man fell two and a half metres onto the second level of scaffolding while working on a house in Upton Court Road.

He suffered injuries to his leg and head. Firefighters under crew manager Andy Gibbons initially considered using an aerial appliance with a drop down platform to lower him to the ground - but finally worked with paramedics to manoeuvre him down an internal staircase so he could be taken to hospital.

Police kept the road clear during the incident which lasted about an hour.

Work on the two storey sloping roofed semi-detached house seemed to have stopped this week and a neighbour said the occupants were away at the moment.

A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said this week that the organisation would investigate the accident but could not comment on the condition of the injured man, saying: “The only update we would get is if the injured person sadly died as that would change the nature of the investigation.”

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the body responsible for the regulation and enforcement of workplace safety. investigating everything from small industrial accidents to major incidents such as the explosions or fires.

A spokesman for a scaffolding company, which has signs on the site, said this week that the injured man was now up and about again and intended to return to India to recuperate. However The Observer has been told that the man was employed by a different company which has also been working at the site.