Keywords: Carl Parsons, Short Brothers (Plant), burned, truck, overturned, fire,

Fire death brings £142,000 penalty for steel contractor

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.02.2006

An industrial services contractor has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay £42,000 costs after one if its employees was fatally burned when a truck he was driving overturned and caught fire.

In April 2002, Carl Parsons, a 55-year-old driver from Cardiff, was employed by Short ...

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