date:Aug 02, 2012
The maintenance engineer, who has asked not to be named, has been told he may never fully recover from the injuries he sustained in the incident at Dovecote Parks abattoir at Skellingthorpe, Lincoln, on July 21 last year.
The engineer was replacing light fittings in a large chiller, and was working from a stepladder set on top of a wooden board spanning metal rafters, about three metres above the ground.
He and a colleague accessed the rafters and board using a cherry picker, but the board g