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A retail display company has been fined following the death of an employee on his first day of work.

Vitalijus Orlovas, 29, from Lithuania, was killed in the accident at work when sheets of glass from a shipping container he was unloading fell on him on his first day at Arken PoP.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the company did not have satisfactory measures to unload the glass in place at the time of the accident at work.

Arken PoP was fined £80,000 and ordered to pay £16,914 in costs.

 HSE Inspector David Head said that Arken PoP did not carry out the legal health and safety duties that could have prevented this "horrific incident".

"It should have been planned properly and staff should have been fully trained in what to do. If there had been a safe system of work for this job this tragic death may not have happened," he added.

Meanwhile, a roofing contractor may be considering making accident claims after he fell through a skylight and broke his back during an accident at work.

Accident claims advice from Serious Law

Posted by M E Dixon
 

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