Employees inexplicable actions led to their deaths, says court

• Author:
• CMS Cameron McKenna

Three years ago proceedings were raised against Hatton Traffic Management Ltd (HTM) following the death of two employees. The case has been slowly making its way through the courts until February this year, when HTM were eventually acquitted of offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSAW) by the unanimous verdict of a jury at Teesside Crown Court.

On 16 January 2002, Fred Cook and John Crimmins were asked to move a mobile tower light – a lighting tower used to illumina... (889 more words)

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