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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Shaun Wilson

Building firm fined over £40,000 after 'wholly avoidable' death of 19-year-old labourer in West London

Renols Lleshi, 19, was killed after stepping on a ventilation shaft which had an unsecure covering - (Health and Safety Executive)

A construction firm has been ordered to pay out almost £50,000 after a teenage labourer was killed falling down a ventilation shaft in a "wholly avoidable" tragedy at a London building site.

Renols Lleshi, 19, was helping to remove scaffolding on the 12th floor roof garden of a block of flats being built at the Ark Soane Academy site, in Mill Hill Road, Acton, on July 5, 2023.

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