DHL fined £2m over depot crush death

DHL, the delivery company, has been fined £2million after an employee was crushed to death at a depot.

The fatality sparked criticism from a judge who said there was a lack of risk assessment at the company following the “shocking and avoidable accident” that killed Krzysztof Sontowski, 36.

He was crushed between a lorry and the wall of a docking bay in Milton Keynes, Bucks, in February 2015.

The company last year admitted at Aylesbury Crown Court two breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act.