01-05-2025 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com

Kitchen fitter crushed to death by concrete blocks

A house builder has been fined after a kitchen fitter was crushed to death by a pack of concrete blocks at a site in the Cotswolds.
Martin Dunford, 33, from Pocklington in Yorkshire died on 23 January 2020 after being pinned against the side of a lorry loader as two stacks of concrete blocks fell onto him.
Dunford had been working at Ebrington Rise, near Chipping Campden – a development of 16 three, four and five bedroomed houses being built by Piper Homes Construction Limited.An HSE inves
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