Collapsed contractor fined £1.5m after fatal crane fall

Defunct steelwork contractor Cleveland Bridge has been fined £1.5 million after an electrician suffered a fatal fall from an overhead crane platform due to a poorly maintained access panel giving way beneath him. 

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