An award-winning health and safety expert died when he plunged 30ft down a lift shaft he was inspecting, an inquest has heard.
James Merritt fell down the empty shaft of a passenger lift while working at a three-storey building in Warwick.
The father of two was inspecting three lifts, two passenger and one freight, at Telent Technologies Services, when he fell and suffered fatal head injuries, on 11 October last year.
Paramedics treated Merritt at the industrial park but he did not recover and died at the scene.
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