Keywords: Scotts, Geoffrey Burnitt, health safety, peat works, baling machine, HSE, safety fine,

Scotts fined £80,000 over baler crushing death

Jocelyn Dorrell | Prosecutions and Claims |
13.11.2008

Horticulture company Scotts (UK), whose brands include Miracle-Gro and Weedol, has been fined £80,000 after a 54-year-old employee was trapped and fatally injured in a baling machine.

Geoffrey Burnitt, an experienced baler operator, was crushed by hydraulic equipment in a baling enclo ...

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