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Cornish waste company fined £200,000 for manslaughter

17th November 2020

A Cornish commercial waste company has been fined £200,000 for corporate manslaughter after the death of an employee at its Redruth plant in 2017, Devon and Cornwall Police have said.

Dale McClelland, 23, became trapped within a baling machine he was operating for H&A Recycling Ltd at the Cardrew Industrial Estate in Redruth on 16 November 2017 . He died at the scene.

A screenshot from a video showing inside H&A Recycling’s Redruth plant (source: Devon and Cornwall Police)

Charges were brought against H&A Recycling following a three-year investigation into Mr McClelland’s death by Devon and Cornwall Police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and extensive liaison with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

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