Mid UK Recycling says death of Karlis Pavasars at plant in Lincolnshire in 2013 was ‘a hard lesson learned’A recycling company has apologised after an agency worker was dragged into an industrial waste shredder and killed. Karlis Pavasars fell on to a conveyor belt while cleaning at the Mid UK Recycling plant near Ancaster, Lincolnshire, in July 2013 and was carried into the equipment. He began working for Mid UK Recycling, which shreds household waste into pellet-sized fuel for the cement industry, in June 2013. Mid UK Recycling acknowledged that there were “clearly gaps” in its systems. This week, Chris Mountain, the managing director of Mid UK Recycling, issued an apology in response to the ruling, saying “hard lessons had been learned” since 2013.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 13:51 UTC