MAINTENANCE contractor Epsco has been ordered to pay 155,000 pounds in fines and costs after it failed to ensure the safety of employees as they cleaned a cooling tower at Connah's Quay power station in North Wales. The prosecution followed an accident in August 2007 when Michael Benn drowned after falling into a water filled sump while clearing silt and other debris from a concrete culvert. When the HSE investigated the accident, it found that Epsco, which had been contracted to carry out the work by the power station operator E.ON, had no safe system of work.
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