Crane operator electrocuted after striking power line

A contractor has been fined £160,000 after a worker was fatally electrocuted while operating a lorry mounted crane.
Cardiff Crown Court heard how on 17 May 2016, ASL Access Scaffold Limited employee Martin Tilby was fatally electrocuted when the crane he was operating struck an overhead power line while he was unloading materials in a field at Cowbridge, South Glamorgan.
An HSE investigation found that no risk assessment had been carried out in the field where the incident happened, and no