Health and Safety at Work Act: a positive burden on employers?

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• Incorporated Council of Law Reporting

The first and second defendants were members of a group of companies, of which the third defendant was the managing director. The second defendant owned land on which a car park was being constructed. The first defendant employed workmen on the site. One of the workmen was asked by the foreman to drive a dumper truck with a load of spoil to a hole into which it was to be deposited. As the workman was driving down a ramp the dumper truck fell on its side, the workman was buried under the spoil... (391 more words)

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