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£200,000 fine Recycling firm Easco (Midlands)
has been fined following a death on site. Chris Tindall reports.
A COVENTRY recycling :ompany has been fined i2(X),000 ifter a worker was killed when a 7eversing skip lorry struck him.
Easco (Midlands) was also )rdered to pay £55.000 costs at :oventry Crown Court last week ifter pleading guilty to breaching he Health and Safety at Work Act.
Ronald Barnacle, 58, was a )urner at the metal recycler when he vehicle struck him in June 2005. file Health and Safety Executive HSE) says there were inadequate n-ecautions in place to segregate )edestrians from vehicles. despite )revious warnings from the HSE it other sites in the Easco group.
The HSEisremindingemployers if their legal obligations;inspector enny Skel don says: "Scrapyard owners must make a sufficient risk assessment of the movement of vehicles and pedestrians on site, and identify and implement appropriate control measures to prevent people being struck by moving vehicles. Had basic health and safety precautions been observed it is unlikely that such a fatality would have occurred."
Ease() was bought by recycling and waste management company Sita in May 2007.A spokeswoman says: "Since Sita UK took over Easco in May 2007 the issues raised by the HSE have been resolved.A detailed action plan to raise health and safety standards has also been implemented."