Couple fined £9,000 for electrocution
17th September 1998, Page 10
17th September 1998
Page 10
Page 10, 17th September 1998
— Couple fined £9,000 for electrocution
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• A Yorkshire farmer and his wife have to pay £9,000 in fines and costs after a driver was electrocuted on their premises. Driver Robert Kirk, of Seaton Ross, North Yorkshire was killed when he delivered a load at Elvington Grange Farm, near York, in December 1996. As he raised his trailer to unload, the top of it came within inches of overhead cables, the electricity earthed, and the vehicle was "live", Kirk was holding the tipper control handle, He had been unaware of the 8.2m-high cables. Farm owners Rodney and Linda Brabbs pleaded not guilty to breaching health and safety regulations but the magistrates found the case proved.