Lion Steel Limited convicted of corporate manslaughter, fined £480k

Lion Steel maintenance worker Steven Berry died from his injuries after an accident on 28 May 2008 when he fell through a fibreglass roof light 13 metres to the factory floor at Hyde in Cheshire, while carrying out a roof repair.

Lion Steel Equipment Limited became only the third company in the UK to be convicted of corporate manslaughter under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, since it came into force in 2008, and was fined £480,000 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £84,000.