Yard manager jailed and company fined £400,000 after employee fell into shredder
A yard manager has been jailed for seven-and-half years and a company fined £400,000 after an employee was killed in an industrial shredder.
David Willis, 29, fell inside a machine designed for shredding wood and commercial waste at Timmins Waste Services (TWS) in Mander Street, Wolverhampton, on September 15 2018.
His remains were never found.
TWS and yard manager Brian Timmins, 54, who was operating the diesel-powered machine at the time, were found guilty of corporate manslaughter and manslaughter respectively last week after a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
The jury could not reach
