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Vue Entertainment has been fined £750,000 for safety breaches after a customer was fatally trapped in a cinema chair.
Ateeq Rafiq, 24, died in hospital in March 2018 after his neck became wedged under the powered chair, which was found to have a blown fuse in its control box.
Birmingham Crown Court was told the father-of-one had kneeled down to search for his keys and phone, unaware that the foot-rest at Vue’s
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Vue cinema fined £750,000 after customer dies after getting trapped in chair
cinema giant Vue Entertainment has been fined a total of £750,000 for safety breaches after a customer became fatally trapped in a chair. Ateeq Rafiq, 24, passed away in hospital in March 2018 after his neck was crushed under the powered chair, which was soon discovered to have a blown fuse in its control box.The Crown Court in Birmingham heard how the father-of-two crouched down in search for his keys and phone, unaware that the foot-rest at Vue's cinema was not able to be lifted by hand.
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Naman Ramachandran A court in Birmingham, U.K. has fined cinema giant Vue Entertainment Ltd £750,000 ($1 million) in the verdict on a 2018 incident where a man was crushed to death under a motorized footrest.In March 2018, 24-year-old Ateeq Rafiq died after his head got crushed under a seat while searching for his keys at Birmingham’s Star City cinema, a Vue property.