Keywords: Hanson Building Products, fined, fell, conveyor, mobile platform,

Tower fall sets brickmaker back £108,000

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.12.2006

The UK'S largest brick manufacturer, Hanson Building Products, has been fined £95,000 plus £13 660 costs after a worker fell several metres from a tower at Quest Pit in Bedfordshire.

On 9 March 2005, heavy-plant driver John Fradley was helping to repair part of the long conveyo ...

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