UK’s biggest food manufacturer fined after worker’s skull crushed

The UK’s biggest food manufacturer has been fined £14,000 after a 65kg metal pillar fell on a maintenance engineer in Merseyside, crushing his skull.

Thomas Williams, from Prenton in Wirral, was working at Premier Foods Group Ltd’s site at Manor Bakeries in Moreton on 24 July 2008 when a four-metre section of pillar fell on his head.

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