£2 MILLION CORPORATE KILLING FINE IMPOSED ON METAL RECYCLER FOR ‘INCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN’

Scrap metal recycling firm Alutrade Ltd has been fined £2 million after admitting the corporate manslaughter of an employee ‘in an incident waiting to happen’. Three company directors have also been fined after pleading guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act. As part of a three-year …