Harvestime Bakery Deaths, Jul 18, 2001 · Harvestime, its Leicester subsidiary Fresha Bakeries, and three managers were yesterday ordered to pay a total of £600,000 in fines and costs over health and safety charges. 7M subscribers in the WTF community. The machine should have been allowed to cool for 12 hours, but was only left for two. David Mayes and Ian Erickson died after they were asked to carry out repairs at the Harvestime bakery in Leicester in May 1998. Fresha Bakeries was fined £250,000 with £175,000 costs. 5 days ago · Two bakery workers died in agony after bosses sent them into a giant oven to carry out repairs on the cheap, a court heard yesterday. 131 votes, 93 comments. John Bridson, 54, of Hale, Cheshire, managing Jul 24, 2013 · News Local News Brian Jones Oven deaths cost company huge fines A BAKERY firm and several of its directors, two of whom are from Cheshire, were yesterday given big fines after an accident in which two workers were baked alive. Things that will make others say "What the F*ck". 5 days ago · Two bakery workers died in agony after bosses sent them into a giant oven to carry out repairs on the cheap, a court heard yesterday. Jul 4, 2024 · In May 1998, a catastrophic and tragic incident unfolded at Harvestime's bread factory in Leicester, highlighting severe lapses in workplace safety and corporate negligence. David and Ian had entered the stove only two hours after it had been switched off to retrieve a missing part, wearing nothing more than flimsy all-in-one suits. Jul 18, 2001 · A bakery company and three company directors have been fined £373,000 after two workers died inside a bread oven. . May 27, 2002 · The court considered the aggravating features identified by the prosecution: the inadequate system of work, the resulting deaths, absence of risk assessment, lack of training and supervision, and poor prioritisation of health and safety. Jul 16, 2001 · A bakery company and three of its directors are being sentenced after two men died in an industrial bread oven. Harvestime was fined £100,000 with £75,000 costs. Jun 12, 2001 · The charges relate to the deaths of labourer David Mayes, aged 47, of Rushey Mead, Leicester, and Ian Erickson, aged 43, an engineer from Walsall. Management had decided to use their own staff to save £2,500 quoted by the manufacturers to carry out repairs. These factors justified a serious penalty. The men were carrying out maintenance work when they became trapped inside the Mar 24, 2025 · Engineers David Mayes, 47, and Ian Erickson, 44, died after entering the oven to carry out repairs at the Harvestime factory in Leicester. Each company admitted failing to provide safe systems at work. David and Ian had entered the stove only two hours after Mar 24, 2025 · Engineers David Mayes, 47, and Ian Erickson, 44, died after entering the oven to carry out repairs at the Harvestime factory in Leicester. May 16, 2025 · It was supposed to be a routine job. Both men died after maintenance on a 75ft bread oven went wrong at Harvestime's plant in Thurmaston Boulevard, Leicester, and they became trapped and then crushed by machinery. On Saturday, May 16, 1998, the day of the FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Newcastle United, two bakery workers, David Mayes, 47, of Rushey Mead, Leicester Jun 12, 2001 · The accident happened at Harvestime Bakery, in Leicester, when the workers had entered the oven to try to recover a broken part. qsskg, ohbmzt, yfd7du, nfu9, b3t8mj, c6zi, rdwb, beuwf, at, ap,
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