Tarmac fined £1.275m after quarry death

Tarmac Aggregates Limited has been fined £1,275,000 after a 26-year-old man was crushed to death during maintenance work at Mountsorrel Quarry in Leicestershire.
Luke Branston, from Leicester, died in the early hours of 21 June 2017 after becoming trapped between a conveyor and a feed hopper.
The contractor, working on behalf of Branston Site Services Limited, was part of a nightshift maintenance team repairing a feed hopper at the Loughborough quarry, operated by Tarmac Aggregates Limited