Fine for Royal Mail worker death reduced due to financial difficulties

Royal Mail has been fined £90,000 and ordered to pay costs of £42,000 this week, following the death in 2006 of an employee.

The prosecution follows the death of 57-year-old yard shunter, Colin Smith, who was killed in September 2006 at Royal Mail’s Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre (HWDC).

Royal Mail Group Ltd was ordered to pay £90,000 and costs of £42,549.56 for breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 at Reading C... (396 more words)

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