Deaths in 2008

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FURTHER DETAILS OF DEATHS

William suffered severe head and chest injuries after falling around 40ft through the roof of bathroom equipment manufacturers Heritage J Ceramics on Armytage Road Industrial Estate in Brighouse.

William worked asa partner in the small ducting company, BJ Duct of Newcastle, and was working on the roof when the incident happened. He was pronounced dead at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

The inquest is to be held at the West Yorkshire Western District Coroner's Court sitting in Halifax on a date yet to be set.

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William was working the night shift at Bezier on Balne Lane when he died after becoming trapped in a machine at the Wakefield printing company

A colleague was sitting next to the machine, which was used for cutting, scoring and pressing card, when it started making a 'clattering' noise as though it had been mis-fed. When he turned an looked he saw William lying across it with his feet protruding.

Paramedics were called, but William was pronounced dead at the scene. A postmortem showed the provisional cause of death to be multiple injuries.

The inquest is to be held at the West Yorkshire Eastern District Coroner's Court on a date yet to be set.

Soon after the incident the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued a safety alert (*) aimed at employers in the printing industry who use hand-fed platen machines. This followed William's death, and another fatality in the preceding 13 months, where machine operators had been crushed between the platens.

In both cases the machines were being operated in 'dwell' mode at the time of the intervention. HSE was concerned with this activity in that the platen may automatically stroke at the end of the dwell period and safety devices may not be activated.

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