Description

Telecommunications giant Fujitsu, one of its sub-contractors, and a farmer from whom it was leasing land were fined a total of [pounds sterling]38,000 in relation to an incident in which a crane operator died when the arm of his vehicle came into contact with overhead power lines. Shaun Rowe, an employee of Peninsula Poling and Communications, a subcontractor of Fujitsu, had been working on a farm near Ivybridge, Plymouth, owned by Richard Hall. The site was being used for storing telegraph poles. On the day...