Labourer drowns in water-filled site excavation

A contractor has been fined after a man drowned when he fell into an exposed excavation hole described as a ‘death trap’, at a building site in Hertfordshire.
Mykhalio Hustei had been working for Alchemist DB Limited as a labourer on a project building several flats on the High Street in Bovington.
The 35-year-old had been living in a property adjoining the site when he attempted to make his way home from a night out on 22 October 2021. As he tried to access his own home he fell into