Engineer, 48, was crushed to death by robotic arm, court hears 

A maintenance engineer was crushed to death by a robotic arm in a 'wholly avoidable' incident after essential safety features were bypassed or disabled by senior management at a garden landscaping supplies firm, a court has heard.  

Andrew Tibbott, 48, had been one of the last employees working at the Deco-Pak Limited premises in Hipperholme, near Halifax, on April 14, 2017 when he was fatally injured by the machine while trying to clean a sensor, a jury heard today.  

Father-of-two Mr Tibbott, who had started at the company less than six weeks prior,  was discovered when concerned family members went to the site on Halifax Road later that evening because he had not come home, Bradford Crown Court was told. 

Prosecutor Allan Compton QC said Mr Tibbott was found by his son, but despite paramedics arriving on scene he died from crush

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