Company Managers Guilty Of Safety Failings After Five Workers Die Birmingham
Five workers were crushed to death at the Hawkeswood metal recycling site in Birmingham when a 4.6m wall and 263 tonnes of metal fell on them in July 2016. After a seven-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court, Wayne Hawkeswood, director of Hawkeswood Metal Recycling, and Graham Woodhouse, director of Ensco 10101, were found guilty of four health and safety offences, while their respective companies were convicted of two offenses of each one....