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07/09/2015
After admitting breaching provisions under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, UK luxury goods giant Hugo Boss was fined £1.2m on Friday, following the death of a four-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a 114kg (18 stone) changing-room mirror.
Austen Harrison was at a Hugo Boss pop-up store in the Bicester Village outlet centre in Oxfordshire with his parents when the mirror, which was completely unsecured to the wall, fell on him, resulting in irreversible brain damage. He died in hospital four days after the incident.
Judge, Peter Ross, said at the Oxford Crown Court that, “it would have been obvious to the untrained eye” that the mirror posed a risk, saying it was “nothing short of a miracle” that it had not fallen before.
The Court heard how contractors “hurried” to convert the pop-up store, (which was previously a Burberry store) and the mirror came with explicit instructions that it should be secured to a reinforced wall.
Compensation to Austen’s family was settled in a separate civil case.
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