Aviance fined for health and safety breach
UK ground handler Aviance was yesterday fined £90,000 (US$145,000) as a result of an incident in 2008 when a man was crushed to death under a vehicle at Heathrow Airport.
The admitted breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, after Mohammed Taj died while repairing a defective vehicle used to pull baggage trolleys.
The Health & Safety Executive investigation showed that the maintenance van supplied by Aviance UK never carried axle stands, or other means of support, which should be used during the kind of activity Taj was involved in.
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