£150k fine for £2m company after fork lift driver is crushed to death

A company which turns over £2m a year has been fined just £150,000 after a Romanian fork lift driver was crushed to death by nearly half a tonne of glass panels. Marian Iancu, 39, was trapped between 400 kilos of glass and his truck at the TLW (UK) logistics company in at the Rippleside Commercial Estate, in Barking, east London. Colleagues tried to rescue Mr Iancu but he had suffered terrible injuries to his chest, fracturing his sternum and rupturing…

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