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Companies fined over £2m after deaths of men at Norfolk chicken factory

Pest controllers working at a chicken factory in Norfolk were killed after entering an area where nitrogen gas had replaced oxygen in the atmosphere

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Companies fined over £2m after deaths of men at Norfolk chicken factory

Two companies have been fined a total of £2,475,900 after two men were killed while carrying out pest control work at a chicken factory in Norfolk. Banham Poultry Ltd and Air Products PLC were...

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