Contractor Nazzareno Vassallo and three of his company directors have been exonerated of responsibility for an accident where a worker was injured on a construction site at Tigne Point in Sliema.
Mr Vassallo, 57, Mary Ann Vassallo, 58, Pio Vassallo, 31, all from Mosta and Aldo Vella, 62, from Mellieħa, pleaded not guilty to involuntary serious injury of Nedo Glisic on April 24, 2006.
Mr Glisic had been working on a roof when he fell a height of eight meters through a hole.
Magistrate Audrey Demicoli established that it was Mr Glisic who was responsible for the accident because he failed to follow instructions and lifted what was known as a rasto panel covering the hole. As he lifted the panel he moved forward and through a hole, the magistrate noted.