16.03.2016

Falcon hit with £850,000

The court has announced the fines and costs that UK based Falcon Crane Hire will have to pay after having pleaded guilty last month to the charges it faced over the Battersea tower crane collapse in 2006, that killed one of its operators and a member of the public. See Falcon pleads guilty

Judge Alistair McCreath ordered the company to pay a £375,000 fine in respect of each of the two men who died along with £100,000 in costs for a total of £850,000.