A Blackburn engineering company has been fined £80,000 after a man described as ‘caring and loving’ by his family was killed after being crushed under a machine.
Speaking on behalf of the family, his sister Emily said Connor was her “amazing, caring, loving and funny little brother”. “It’s hard to explain to people what we have been through, are going through. We don’t want another family to go through what we have.” The investigation also found that Partwell Special Steels Limited of Stanley Street, Blackburn, had not undertaken an assessment of the risks involved with moving the machine and that the task had not been suitably planned and no safe system of work had been provided to the employees.