A food waste recycling company has been found guilty of corporate manslaughter after two workers drowned in a tanker of semi-liquid pig feed. Dad-to-be Nathan Walker, 19, and his colleague Gavin Rawson, 35, were working at Greenfeeds Ltd when they were overcome by toxic fumes.
The two men, who were yard workers at the firm’s base, were found face down in the liquid inside the tank on the afternoon of December 22, 2016. They were pronounced dead at the scene at Church Farm, on Normanton Lane, Normanton, Leics.
Following a six-week trial at Leicester Crown Court, the company was found guilty of two counts of corporate manslaughter. The firm’s directors, Ian Leivers, 59, and his wife Gillian, 60, of Newark, Notts., were also convicted over the deaths alongside employee Stewart Brown, 69.
