UK Coal fined over miner's death
UK Coal and Joy Mining sentenced over the death of Ian cameron at Kellingley Colliery in 2009
Video: Mining company fined over safety failings
Two mining companies have today been fined a total of a quarter of a million pounds over serious safety failings at a North Yorkshire colliery where an experienced miner was crushed to death.
UK Coal, which is currently being investigated over another fatality at the Kellingley mine last September, was ordered to pay two hundred thousand pounds after admitting breaching regulations which led to the death of Ian Cameron in 2009.
The firm which supplied the machinery that collapsed on top of Mr Cameron, was fined fifty thousand pounds.
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