In 2004, the Bomel report quoted the incidence of serious injuries within the UK Waste Management Industry at five times the national average and a fatality rate ten times the national average. That was bad enough.
However, it got worse in February 2006 when a safety alert released by the HSE made it clear that there have been no less than nine work related deaths in the waste and recycling industries in a recent approximately 8 week time span.

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