The Corporate Manslaughter Act – Construction Death Conviction

Construction company convicted for the death of a geologist, killed in a collapsed trench, and fined £385,000 under new legislation.

On the 15th February 2011 the first conviction under the Corporate Manslaughter Act of 2007 reached its completion. The case saw Gloucestershire-based firm Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings convicted for the death of Alex Wright, a 27 year-old geologist killed in a collapsed trench site near Stroud. The company was deemed to have allowed the geologist to work in a dangerously unsecured deep trench and was fined, three days later, the sum of £385,000.

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