Director and site manager sentenced after labourer crushed

A construction company has been fined £450,000 and the firm’s director has received a suspended prison sentence after a labourer was crushed to death at a building site.
Simon Briggs, 61, principal director of Stonehurst Estates Ltd, was sentenced to 23 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, for a health and safety offence following the death of 49-year-old Oleksander “Sasha” Rudyy at a development site in Hockley, Birmingham, on May 8, 2019.
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