£300,000 fine for health and safety breaches

A manufaacturing firm has been fined £300,000 and ordered to pay costs of £11,591 following an accident which left a worker paralysed from the chest down.During September 2000, leaking water from a cooling system had gathered into a large pool. Although an operator had logged the hazard, management failed to regularly re-assess the risk although some steps had been taken to mop-up the water.The firm, Corus UK Ltd, failed to repair the leak even though the cost of doing so would have been mi... (92 more words)

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