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Firms Fined £1m over 'Horrifying' Death of Worker Buried Alive in Banstead Ditch
The firms were found guilty after safety failures in a 10ft trench collapse killed labourer Gheorghita Arsene, 33, and led to more than £1m in fines.
- On Monday, two construction businesses were fined more than £1m following the June 2020 death of labourer Gheorghita Arsene, who was crushed while working in a deep trench at a Surrey site.
- Gheorghita Arsene was working inside an unsupported 10ft-deep trench on Park Road when walls collapsed without warning, burying him under heavy soil at a site being prepared for a new care home.
- Judge Judy Khan fined the now-defunct Appledorn Developments £500,000 for "cost-cutting at the expense of safety," while T Vaughan Limited received £650,000 plus £40,000 in costs for failing to implement adequate safety systems.
- Contracts manager Anthony O'Connor received a 10-month suspended sentence plus 150 hours of unpaid work, with the judge stating he had "actual foresight" of the risk of harm to workers in the excavation.
- The Health and Safety Executive stated "basic precautions were not in place" to protect workers from excavation risks, warning that companies and individuals have legal duties to prevent such preventable deaths.
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Two British companies were fined over £1 million after the death of a Romanian worker who was buried alive after a ditch fell on a yard in Banstead, Surrey. Article Romanian worker died on a yard in Britain. Young man was buried alive after a ditch fell first appeared in Romania TV.
Two British companies were fined over £1 million after the death of a Romanian worker on a Surrey shipyard. 33-year-old Gheorghita Arsene died in 2020 after a deep ditch collapsed over him.
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The Independent (US)Firms fined over £1m after ‘horrifying’ death of worker buried alive in Surrey ditch
Gheorghita Arsene was buried alive after a ditch collapsed on him in June 2020
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38% Left
L 38%
C 37%
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