Aggregates firm sentenced over excavator safety failings

J Murphy Aggregates Ltd, its director and an agency excavator operator have been sentenced for safety breaches after a worker was struck and seriously injured by an excavator which fell from an aggregates stockpile at one of the firm’s sites. The company was also fined for a separate, later incident which saw a worker dragged under an excavator.

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