Tobacco giant is fined �150k over crush death - Local - Belfast Newsletter: NORTHERN Ireland’s best-known tobacco producer has been fined �150,000 for health and safety breaches after an employee was crushed to death while carrying out maintenance work.
Engineer Trevor Allen, 63, was working at Gallaher Ltd’s Ballymena factory when a robot arm weighing a quarter of a ton went into freefall. It trapped his head and shoulders on top of a scaffold bar in July last year and he died four days later.
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