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Adam Everett & Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

B&M fined £1million after worker's body 'blew up 4 times its size' in horrific incident

B&M have been fined more than £1million after an electrician's body blew up to almost four times its normal size in a horrific industrial accident.

Shahenur Rahman was seriously injured in the incident on September 22 2018 at the discount retailer's UK headquarters in Speke, Liverpool, while working for Bolton-based firm Daker, reports the Echo.

He remained in a coma for two weeks and suffered electrical burns to 15 per cent of his body — including his arms, hands, thighs, legs and face — after he was struck by a "Catherine wheel of fire " while connecting a pair of generators, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

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