Young ’so vulnerable’ at work

As the British Safety Council says 66 young people have been killed at work in a decade, bereaved parents reflect on their loss and training that could have saved their sons.

“He was a young lad in his first job and he just wanted to please,” says the father of one teenager who died at work.

But 17-year-old apprentice Daniel Dennis never got the chance to prove himself at his new company.

In 2003 Daniel died when he fell 28ft (9m) from a roof and landed on the shop floor.

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