Second death at textile mill in three years leaves WE Rawson with fine of ￡600,000

摘要

A textile company has been ordered to pay ￡620,165 in fines and costs after an operator was killed when he became trapped in a poorly guarded shrink-wrapping machine. The company, WE Rawson, has been prosecuted twice before, including five years ago for another fatality at the same site, which the judge accepted as an aggravating feature. The latest fine represents 18.8% of WE Rawson's most recent annual pretax profit.