Workers Caught Lifted Up In A Digger Bucket With No Helmets, Firm Fined £120,000

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The photo shows them fitting a stone on a new mansion while crouching in the shallow trough. Despite being around 20 feet in the air, neither wore a helmet.

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The identities of the workers remain unknown. The Villas housing development on Starring Road faced “repeated breaches” after The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors visited.

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Hoyle Developments, a firm from Edenfield Road, Rochdale, pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations after the investigation was conducted.

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The Health and Safety Executive inspector Mike Lisle told the media: “Health and safety should be an integral part of any business, not an afterthought"

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