Joiner crushed to death by excavator

A construction company has been fined £146,000 after a joiner was crushed and killed by a 20-tonne excavator.
Philip McDonald had been hired by Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) Ltd to assist with the construction of a concrete overflow weir structure at Monks Pond, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
The 48-year-old, from Alfreton, was with colleagues on a road above the work area waiting for the excavator to remove sand from trench boxes when it rotated clockwise and crushed him.Kidderminster Mag