Worker crushed by falling glass

Newmarket Weekly News
December 20, 2010
COMMERCIAL, RETAIL, FABRICATION : SAFETY

A firm has been fined £80,000 [approximately $184,000] after a worker was crushed to death by falling glass his first day on the job.

Workmates tried unsuccessfully to smash the glass – which weighed 242 pounds per lite – with a hammer to free Vitalijus Orlovas at Arken POP's site in St Neots, England.

 

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