Recycling firm fined

Environcom England Ltd of Manchester has been fined a total of £17,000 plus £5,915 costs in connection with conditions at its Grantham premises.

It admitted 2 counts of breaching s.3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

An incident on 15th September 2009, in which an agency worker suffered bruising when an unsafe stack of appliances fell on him, led to a visit from an HSE inspector.   

The inspector arrived on 3rd December to investigate and found appliances still stacked dangerously high and a Prohibition Notice was served

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