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14 Apr 2010

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Birmingham Post [UK]

Corus fined £240,000 after death of lorry driver in Staffordshire [UK]

Multinational steelmaker Corus has been fined £240,000 after a lorry driver was crushed to death at its site in Staffordshire. The firm was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after three tonnes of steel plates fell on 22-year-old…Ross Beddow, at the firm's base in Wombourne…Corus…was also ordered to pay £112,500 costs at Stafford Crown Court after it pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974…An HSE investigation showed the system of work for loading steel was unsafe