Kit maker Genie fined after M25 work platform death fall

Construction kit manufacturer Genie UK has been fined £270,000 after a plant hire employee died when a work platform fell onto the M25 motorway.
Reading Crown Court heard that Rick Jeager-Fozard, an employee of Kimberly Access Limited, was carrying out a routine pre-delivery inspection on a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) at the firm’s yard on 5 June 2013.
The MEWP extended to an unsafe angle and fell across the adjacent M25 motorway. Jeager-Fozard was working in the platform o