Company fined £1m after fatal window collapse at luxury building
A company has been fined £1m after Mick Ferris was killed when a 130-kilogram window fell from The Corniche luxury building in Vauxhall. The supplied report identifies the victim, the building and the penalty but gives no further details about the company or court proceedings.
A company has been fined £1m after a man was killed by a window that fell from a luxury residential building in Vauxhall, the BBC reports. The victim was identified as Mick Ferris. He was crushed when the 130-kilogram window fell from The Corniche building, according to the supplied material.
The penalty follows the fatal incident involving the window. However, the available report does not identify the company that was fined, state when the death occurred or provide details of the court hearing. It also does not explain why the window fell, whether other people were at risk or what safety failures were established during the proceedings.
No information is supplied about any additional penalties, compensation or remedial measures. The reported fine is £1m. The case concerns the death of Ferris and the failure of a heavy window at The Corniche, a luxury building in Vauxhall.
Further factual details about the investigation and the company’s response were not included in the source material.
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