Cleaner crushed by pallets

摘要

Rochdale plastics manufacturer TS (UK) Ltd has been fined ￡140,000 after a Portuguese cleaner was crushed to death by a pallet of bags weighing nearly one and a half tonnes.rnManchester Crown Court heard that Abel Lages was cleaning up a spillage in the factory yard in July 2005 when a wooden pallet containing 55 bags of polypropylene, used to manufacture washing up bowls, buckets and other plastic products, fell onrnhim. He died at the scene.