£20,000 bill for firm after crane scare
A crane manufacturer was yesterday fined £10,000 after an electric crane dropped a load, narrowly avoiding its operator.
Rossendale Group, of Ellesmere Port, Wirral, pleaded guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The company was also ordered to pay 10,000 costs by Sheffield magistrates over the incident at Pacific GB, of Oughtibridge Mill.