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Fined for tanker death
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by Abigail Saltmarsh l• Tanker operator Charringtons has been fined £16,500 for failing to provide safety equipment after a driver was fatally injured in a fall from the top of his tanker.
Peter Bunn, 59, of Hellesdon, near Norwich, died after slipping and plunging 12 feet while loading his tanker at Charringtons' Carrow Road depot last September.
David I,owens, for Norwich City Council, said the company had failed to install safety rails after an employee was injured in an accident at a different depot, despite recommendations from the Health and Safety Executive.
Lowens said that Bunn had climbed on top of the tanker to fill it with domestic oil. Soon afterwards a fellow driver found him lying on the ground; he died nine days later. The company pleaded guilty but John Young, defending, said Charringtons had 19 sites where top loading took place and the company was making all its depots safer.
Young told magistrates that although the company had been in existence since 1953, the new owners only took over last year. "My clients accept their obligation to fence," he said.
Following the accident Charringtons stopped all top loading at the Carrow Road depot, which is scheduled to close in July when a new depot opens outside Norwich.