Thursday, July 7, 2016

Scania is convicted of the fatal accident in 2010 – Västerbotten Courier

Scania convicted of working crimes in connection with the fatal accident that occurred in 2010, when a man became trapped in a sky lift. It writes lt.se.

After the company was acquitted in the District Court of Appeal has now decided that the company should pay a fine of two million and compensation to the deceased man’s family.

A manager Scania and a director of the company that the man worked at, Dynamate Industrial Services (DIS), sentenced to probation. The Court of Appeal frees two co-defendants. DIS will also pay two million crowns in fines.

The man was crushed to death November 15, 2010 when he was hoisted in a crane to, in his work as an electrician, perform installation work on the ceiling of one of Scania factory premises. The roof was a fully automatic conveyor and the there was a spreader that got stuck in the boom of the sky lift. With great force, pulling it against a beam. The man lost consciousness after one quarter and was pronounced dead in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

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