AN engineering company has been fined £80,000 after a worker was crushed to death by a machine.
Connor Borthwick, from Wigan, was working for Partwell Special Steels at its site in Blackburn when the incident happened on November 25, 2021.
The 22-year-old and another employee were moving a large cutting press machine across a workshop floor when it became unbalanced on skates, resulting in Connor being killed.
Mr Borthwick's sister Emily, a high jumper who represented Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, described her brother as 'amazing, caring, loving and funny little brother! "Everyone loved Connor," she said.
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