Company fined £1.2m after man crushed to death at work

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Luke Branston, from Leicester, was crushed to death when conducting maintenance work after being trapped between a conveyor belt and a feed hopper. | ITV News Central

Luke, was completing essential maintenance work on a conveyor belt. However, the power had not been cut before repair work started.

Luke's colleague who was there with him the day that he was accidentally killed, later took his own life 18 months later. Despite the incident taking place nearly 6 years ago, Luke's family are still devastated by his loss.Luke’s brother, Michael Branston, said: “Luke wasn’t just my brother, he was my best friend, there with me every step of the way, so the loss was massive for me”.

They also found that the technical issue that killed Luke had existed for years before the incident, but the company had failed to record and fix the problem.

 

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