A teenage apprentice joiner who won a high-level prize died when an unsafe stack of boards toppled on to her at work, an inquest heard.
Chloe Bidwell, 18, died after being crushed when plasterboard fell while she was renovating the house for university students.
A judge said the company’s risk assessment ‘wasn’t worth the paper it was written on’ as workers had not seen it.
Keen rugby player and skydiver Chloe was described as a ‘very talented young lady’ and won gold medal in joinery at the ‘Skills Competition Wales’.
In a victim impact statement, her mother Clare Stephenson-Brown said her daughter was ‘full
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