A WORKER was taken to hospital after falling 15 feet off a roof he was repairing in Egerton.

Alan Crook had been replacing glass panels at Deakins Mill on Deakins Business Park, Blackburn Road, when he slipped and fell.

He landed on a roof lower down where he lay injured until the emergency services arrived.

With his workmates looking on, fire crews used their aerial ladder platform to lower him safely to the ground.

Mr Crook was taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital suffering from minor head injuries shortly after the incident at 10.50am.