Thames Water has been ordered to pay more than 361,000 pounds after a worker was killed by a reversing excavator at a treatment works in Waltham-stow, east London. Raymond Holmes died at the company's Coppermill Lane site in April 2010 after sustaining multiple crush injuries. South-wark Crown Court was told that Holmes, who had been employed by Thames Water for more than 30 years, was part of a team carrying out profiling work to clean a large sand filter bed measuring 100 metres by 33 metres.
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