£1m fine for firms after death on the ‘horror highway’

  Contractors on the Crossrail project have been fined £1 million after health and safety failings which resulted in the death of one worker and serious injuries caused to two others. Slovakian-born Rene Tkacik, 44, was crushed when a slab of wet concrete fell on him as he spayed tunnel walls at the Fisher Street site in Holborn on March 7, 2014. Terrence ‘Ian’ Hughes, 45, suffered horrific leg injuries when a reversing excavator pinned him to the wall of…