Five African men were crushed to death when a wall overloaded with metal collapsed on top of them.
A neighbouring company also photographed walls leaning on to its site from the Shredmet premises and raised concerns with the company at least two years before the men died.
HMR was fined £1m and Ensco £600,000, and his honour Mr Justice Sweeting also made an order that £775,000 must be paid in prosecution costs. "The investigation into this incident was long and complex. Five men lost their lives in the most appalling of circumstances. Their deaths should not have happened. They went to work to earn a wage; that cost them their lives.
The men - four from The Gambia and one from Senegal - had previously been working in Spain but came to the UK after finding it difficult to find employment on the continent.
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