Road contractor ordered to pay

A road contractor was fined £75,000 and ordered to pay £22,000 costs by Lincoln Crown Court on Monday after a worker was burned to death while cleaning a tanker.

Colas Ltd of Crawley, West Sussex, admitted breaching section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 by failing to ensure the safety of employees John Gilroy and Phillip Kelly whilst they were cleaning a bitumen tanker at the company's Grantham depot on 20 February 2003.

Mr Gilroy was cleaning the bitumen... (177 more words)

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