Liverpool, UK-based company has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay £16,941 in costs after a man was killed and another seriously injured when they were struck by a load that fell from an overhead crane.
The UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned of the dangers of allowing cranes to operate over the heads of employees.
MRX Engineering Support Services Ltd., trading as Stackright Building Systems of Charleywood Road, Kirby, was fined at Liverpool Crown Court of breaching S 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 in that it failed to ensure the safety of its employees. The company pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing at Knowsley Magistrates Court.
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