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A construction firm has been criticised for putting the lives of workers and pedestrians at risk by failing to install adequate manhole covers to support moving machinery at a building site in central Nottingham.
Magistrates heard that Shepherd Construction Ltd was the principal contractor for the construction of a shopping centre at Trinity Square. On 20 August 2007, a worker on the site drove a cherry-picker over a concealed manhole cover, which gave way under the weight of the machine, and caused it to topple over.
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