A civil engineering firm has been fined ￡600,000 after a seven-year-old child became trapped and suffocated on a construction site. Seven-year-old Conley Thompson went missing from home on the morning of July 26, 2015 and was found the next morning by workers at the construction site in Worsborough, South Yorkshire. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Conley had become trapped in a drainage pipe, which had been fixed into the ground in preparation for the installation of fencing posts, and had suffocated. His body was found the next morning when work restarted on site. According to HSE, the construction site was a new-build housing development next to an existing housing estate and adjacent to busy pedestrian footpaths and roads.
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