Construction company fined more than £150,000 after worker death on Cambridgeshire site

A construction company has been fined more than £150,000 after pleading guilty to contravening a health and safety regulation, when one of their workers was killed at a site in Cambridgeshire.

James Rourke died when an excavator, whose driver hadn't seen him, hit and killed the 22-year-old while working on a building site in Brampton in November 2019.

James, who was unsupervised at the time of his death, was working on site for the first time.

Material Movements Limited (MML), a Bedfordshire firm which employed James, pleaded guilty to contravening a health and safety regulation during a hearing at Peterborough Magistrates' Court in January.

James, from Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, graduated from the University of Birmingham in the summer of 2019, when he began to work for MML.

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