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The production company behind 'F9' pleaded guilty in a U.K. court to breaching health and safety legislation and were fined $1 million.

To continue my reminiscences of decades as a railway trackworker, the development of Health and Safety law on the railway has been a bit of a double-edged sword. It has generally been to the benefit of workers. Legislation has enabled us to stop the more egregious practices. But it has also made us a bit lazy, with workers looking to legislation rather than taking direct action and sometimes being fobbed off despite being in the right.

To continue my reminiscences of decades as a railway trackworker, the development of Health and Safety law on the railway has been a bit of a double-edged sword. It has generally been to the benefit of workers. Legislation has enabled us to stop the more egregious practices. But it has also made us a bit lazy, with workers looking to legislation rather than taking direct action and sometimes being fobbed off despite being in the right.

Tom Matthews, a 33 year-old father-of-two from Grantham, Lincolnshire, was cleaning batter machinery when his left hand was pulled into a rotary valve while working a night shift on 2 September 2019.

A food manufacturer has been fined £700,000 after a former employee lost two fingers while working a night shift.