Irish farm equipment manufacturer McHale Engineering has been fined after 48-year-old George Stokes died when the rotating arms of a defective bale wrapping machine struck him on the head at Tong Norton Farm in Shropshire.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the company and found it guilty of supplying a defective machine in 2001, which led to the death of the Shropshire farmer in 2009. McHale Engineering was fined £45,000 and ordered to pay £70,000 costs after the death of George Stokes. Mr Stokes had been working on his…
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