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Company fined £200,000 for fatal crash

Construction company Costain Ltd has been fined £200,000 after a labourer was crushed to death by a mechanical excavator. The fine came days after the HSC released figures showing a substantial rise in deaths at construction sites over the last year (see Injuries at work 2000/01).