Polski Dzial Farm Worker Dies Clearing Blockage in Grain Bin
A farming company has appeared in Jedburgh Sheriff Court charged with health and safety breaches after a young man was killed while trying to clear a blockage in a grain bin at a farm in Hawick. The court heard that large metal containers known as bins were used on the farm for storing grain during […]
Director fined after worker’s fatal fall through roof
The director of a building firm has been prosecuted after a self-employed contractor fell to his death through a fragile roof at an industrial building in Penryn. Paul Gibbons was carrying out re-roofing work when he fell eight metres through a fragile part of the asbestos cement roof onto the floor below. He was taken […]