Seafood firm fined over fisherman's death
A seafood company has been fined £80,000 after a fisherman died when his leg became caught in a rope and he was pulled overboard.
He was helping to deploy creels when he became entangled in a coil of rope and was dragged overboard and into the sea.On Wednesday, Tain Sheriff Court heard Mr Elder's crew-mates tried to stop him from going into the water.It took about 10 minutes for him to be brought back on board. Efforts to resuscitate Mr Elder continued for more than an hour, but were unsuccessful.
The probe also found they had failed to arrange or complete the required new risk assessment when they purchased the boat in November 2016.Scrabster Seafoods pled guilty to contraventions of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
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