Whirlpool UK Appliances has been fined £700,000 after a self-employed contractor fell from a mobile elevated work platform and later died.
On 21 March 2015 the contractor had been working at a height of nearly five metres installing fire detection equipment, at the site of the former Indesit factory in Yate, near Bristol.
At the same time Whirlpool UK maintenance workers started an overhead conveyor unaware that the contractor was working nearby.
The movement caused the MEWP to tip over and the 66-year-old man fell to the factory floor. He later died from his injuries.
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