'No one should go to work and not return': Mum's agony after son crushed to death at Müller Yoghurt factory
28.11.2023 - 15:21
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A mum has spoken of her heartbreak after her son was crushed to death at a yoghurt factory. Lift Monitoring Systems Limited in Staffordshire was fined £200,000 yesterday following a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into the death of Lewis McFarlin, the Mirror reports.
The 24-year-old lift engineer was fatally crushed when attempting to repair a goods lift at Müller's Market Drayton factory on January 14, 2020. Müller Yogurt has not been prosecuted by HSE.
Mr McFarlin and two other lift engineers were working on a different lift before being asked to resolve an issue with the door-opening mechanism on one of the lift landing doors, HSE said. While attempting to resolve the fault, Mr McFarlin was on top of the lift car.
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The lift had been placed in 'inspection mode' enabling Mr McFarlin to control the lift from its rooftop. This mode enabled him to assist his colleague, inside the lift, to rectify the issue.
But as work progressed, the lift unexpectedly shifted from inspection mode to normal mode while Mr McFarlin was still on top. A HSE probe found that this sudden transition caused the lift to move at normal speed and trapped him in a void between the lift car and the structural elements of the lift shaft.
Mr McFarlin’s colleagues tried to release him but were sadly unable to. He had already lost his life by the time the emergency services arrived at the scene. HSE investigators said there was a failure to cover the void in which Lewis became trapped. Had the void
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