Wiltshire-based waste management firm Shanley & Sons has been fined £80,000 over the death of an employee who was run over by a skip lorry.
At Swindon Crown Court on 25 September, Shanley was fined £80,000 and order to pay costs of £25,000, following the death of 62-year-old Bert Reeves on 21 June 2007.
Reeves was killed when a skip truck reversed over him in Shanley's Trowbridge waste transfer site. He was working on foot in the blindspot of a lorry's mirror.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuting team told the court that the site was chaotic and congested.
The company, which has an O-licence for 12 vehicles and one trailer, pleaded guilty to not having a safety management system in place at its Trowbridge site, and to not segregating pedestrians and vehicles in so far as is reasonably practicable.
HSE inspector Liam Osborne says: "Large moving vehicles on waste and recycling sites are a major risk to people who have to work on foot. Safety laws were introduced in 1992 that require managers of these sites to organise them to reduce the risk of people being killed or injured in this way."