£25,000 fine after fatal fall through roof

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The owners of a London cash-and-carry warehouse have been fined £25,000 after a court heard how their negligence allowed an employee to fall to his death.

Sudesh Patel went onto the roof of Dhamecha Foods wholesale warehouse in Barking on 23 June 2003 to clean out the guttering. He was making his way across the roof with a colleague - both warehouse forklift truck drivers - when a piece of plastic corrugated sheeting collapsed under his weight. Patel fell an estimated 35 feet onto the concr... (149 more words)

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