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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

Company directors guilty of safety failings after five workers died

The scene at Hawkeswood Metal Recycling in the Nechells area of Birmingham where five men died after a wall collapsed.
The scene at Hawkeswood Metal Recycling in the Nechells area of Birmingham where five men died after a wall collapsed in 2016. Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA

The directors of two companies have been found guilty of health and safety offences that led to the deaths of five workers when a wall collapsed at a scrap metal recycling plant.

Five workers were crushed to death at the Hawkeswood Metal Recycling site in Birmingham when a 4.6-metre high wall and 263 tonnes of metal fell on them in July 2016.

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