article_snippet: A business has been  fined £200,000 over the death of a worker who became trapped inside an industrial oven which was then accidentally turned on by his future son-in-law.
article_snippet: The father-of-three from Halewood, Liverpool, had gone inside to clean molten plastic escaping from a mould while The oven was switched off after a fault developed.
article_snippet: Crown Court heard the industrial oven he was cleaning had developed a fault with a guide rail bearing and had been shut down for maintenance so a guide rail bearing could be fixed.
article_snippet: But once the maintenance work had been completed the industrial oven he was cleaning was switched back on by colleague Mark Francis, who was engaged to Mr Catterall's's daughter, and put into warm-up mode.
article_snippet: the trial judge, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London said there were 'a number of serious failings in the design of this and other moulding ovens' - the design and commissioning of which had been done in-house.
article_snippet: Liverpool Crown Court heard the oven had developed a fault with a guide rail bearing and had been shut down for maintenance so a guide rail bearing could be fixed.  
article_snippet: Whereas others were also involved, you had to accept that you took the lead in designing and commissioning these ovens.
highlights_snippet: Alan Catterall was cleaning molten plastic from inside while oven was switched off .
  
highlights_snippet: The oven was accidentally switched back on by colleague Mark Francis, who was engaged to Mr Catterall's daughter, and put into warm-up mode .
  