Worker killed by falling excavator attachment

A Kent plant firm has been fined £175,000 following the death of an employee.
Liam McArdle, from Gravesend was fatally crushed by an excavator attachment while working for Erith Plant Services Limited on 21 September 2021.
A demolition grab, attached to an excavator, fell onto the 24-year-old while it was loaded onto a lorry at Erith Plant Services Limited’s workshop at Eastern Quarry on Watling Steet, Swanscombe.An HSE investigation into the incident found Erith Plant Services Limit