My Boy Died for Nothing ; Exclusive Faulty Pin Should Have Been Spotted - Mum
Sunday Mercury › April 02, 2006
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A YOUNG Midland builder died when an eight-tonne concrete block fell on him - because a faulty metal pin which would have cost just pounds 3 to replace snapped 'like a piece of chalk'.
Sam Ball, 21, from Atherstone, Warwickshire, was killed instantly when the huge stone slab fell from its harness and crushed him to death.See the full content of this document
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My Boy Died for Nothing ; Exclusive Faulty Pin Should Have Been Spotted - Mum
The pin, used to attach a chain bearing the weight of the concrete block to the crane, had fractured six weeks earlier.
But the damage went undiscovered because the equipment ha...See the full content of this document
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