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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sarah Ward

Firm fined for woman’s death had no safety rules and expected staff to ‘get on with it’

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A firm has been fined £80,000 after a woman was killed by a reversing forklift truck.

Karen Allen, 61, was run over by the vehicle after disposing of a bag of rubbish at QA Fish Ltd, a fish processing company based at Blackness Pier, Scalloway, Shetland, on 31 January 2018.

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