Worker Crushed to Death by Three-Tonne Pallet of Timber as Firm Fined

North Wales builders’ merchant fined £2m after worker crushed on conveyor

Paul Coulson, 56, died after a colleague started a conveyor not realising Mr Coulson had climbed inside it - resulting in the fatal crush.

Anglesey builders' merchants Huws Gray fined more than £2m after worker crushed

Paul Coulson, 56, died after a colleague started a conveyor not realising Mr Coulson had climbed inside it

Worker crushed to death by three-tonne pallet of timber as firm fined

Paul Coulson, 56, died at the scene on May 22, 2024

Huws Gray fined £2.2m for mill conveyor death - Builders Merchants Journal

Builders merchant Huws Gray has been fined over £2m after one of its workers was crushed to death by a pallet of timber. Paul Coulson, 56, was removing plastic packaging from pallets of timber before they could be processed at the the company’s Herringswell Sawmills, in Bury St Edmonds. He died after a colleague started …