The director of Yorkshire timber company Teglgaard Hardwood UK has been handed a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to corporate manslaughter in a health and safety test case brought after a worker was killed by falling timber.
John Horner was given a 15-month sentence, suspended for two years, while the company was fined £25,000.
The Hessle-based firm admitted that no risk assessment or safety policy had been in place in its warehouse where the 18-year-old worker was crushed by planks from a 9m-high stack of wood.
