A worker at a recycling centre in St Helens was crushed to death by a faulty cherry picker, an inquest into his death has heard.
Uldis Senkans, 30, died from chest injuries after getting stuck between the machine and the steel beams of the building he was working on at the CEW Recycling Group site on Merton Steet in November 2019. Colleagues found the worker unresponsive at around 3.45pm.
They attempted to move the heavy machinery, which refused to start, and Mr Senkans was pronounced dead at the scene at 6.11pm by paramedics, the Liverpool Echo reports. An inquest into his death on Tuesday was told the cherry picker, which Mr Senkans had been operating, was found to have 15 serious defects, including three which could have caused or contributed to the fatal incident.
