A worker at a metal recycling plant was crushed to death when he was pinned against a steel column by a wheeled loading shovel.
A worker at a metal recycling plant was crushed to death when he was pinned against a steel column by a wheeled loading shovel.
An employee could have been killed by the collapse of the face of a four-metre-deep excavation that buried him in earth and rubble up to his waist, according to the HSE inspector who investigated the case.
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