A Nottinghamshire business has been fined £1m after a young man died using unsafe equipment. Stewart Ramsay, 24, from Mansfield, was working for concrete manufacturer Creagh Concrete Products Ltd (CCP) at its Thurgarton Lane site in Hoveringham when he suffered fatal head injuries on March 15, 2017.
Mr Ramsay was trying to fix a problem that happened as he and colleagues were using a metal grab to unload Spantherm, a concrete building product, from some trailers. But the metal grab should not have been in use - with it being in poor condition and there being no outlined safe system for its use.
His head became trapped after a rope connected to the locking lever snapped. Even though the rope was tied in a double-knot, the locking mechanism released the jaws of the grab as Mr Ramsay pulled on it, causing fatal injuries.
