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Firms Fined £1m over 'Horrifying' Death of Worker Buried Alive in Banstead Ditch
The firms were found guilty after safety failures in a 10ft trench collapse killed labourer Gheorghita Arsene, 33, and led to more than £1m in fines.
- On Monday, two businesses were fined more than £1m following the 2020 death of labourer Gheorghita Arsene, who was crushed while working in a deep trench at a construction site in Surrey.
- Gheorghita Arsene was working inside an unsupported 10ft-deep trench on Park Road when the walls collapsed without warning, burying him under heavy soil during preparation for a new care home.
- Judge Judy Khan fined the now-defunct Appledorn Developments £500,000 for "cost-cutting at the expense of safety," while T Vaughan Limited received £650,000 plus £40,000 in costs.
- Contracts manager Anthony O'Connor received a 10-month suspended sentence for failing to discharge his duties, with the judge noting he had "actual foresight" of the risk of harm.
- The Health and Safety Executive stated that "basic precautions were not in place" to protect workers from well-known excavation risks, warning that companies must adhere to legal safety duties.
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Two British companies were fined over £1 million after the death of a Romanian worker who was buried alive after a ditch fell on a yard in Banstead, Surrey. Article Romanian worker died on a yard in Britain. Young man was buried alive after a ditch fell first appeared in Romania TV.
Two British companies were fined over £1 million after the death of a Romanian worker on a Surrey shipyard. 33-year-old Gheorghita Arsene died in 2020 after a deep ditch collapsed over him.
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The Independent (US)Firms fined over £1m after ‘horrifying’ death of worker buried alive in Surrey ditch
Gheorghita Arsene was buried alive after a ditch collapsed on him in June 2020
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38% Left
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C 37%
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