Keywords: construction, gate, ergonomics, risk assessment, manual handling,
Gate crushes worker, lands builder with fine
Prosecutions and Claims |
01.05.2006
A judge at Bristol Crown Court has fined a construction company £40,000 after an employee was crushed by heavy steel gates he was moving by hand. Sentencing, Judge David Ticehurst said the job "simply should not have gone ahead".
The prosecution by South Gloucestershire Coun ...
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