A court in Birmingham, U.K. has fined cinema giant Vue Entertainment Ltd £750,000 ($1 million) in the verdict on a 2018 incident where a man was crushed to death under a motorized footrest. In Marc…
Entertainment Ltd £750,000 in the verdict on a 2018 incident where a man was crushed to death under a motorized footrest.
In March 2018, 24-year-old Ateeq Rafiq died after his head got crushed under a seat while searching for his keys at Birmingham’s Star City cinema, a Vue property. At an inquest held in 2019 it was revealed that he force which came down on Rafiq’s head was 3/4th of a ton. The seat was missing a bar which would have allowed Rafiq to be released manually.
In April 2021, Vue Cinemas admitted to two charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act, for “failing to ensure that persons not in their employment are not exposed to risk to their health or safety” and for “failing to make a suitable and sufficient risk assessment.”Popular on Variety Vue has 91 cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland, with over 870 screens. It is is part of the largest cinema group in Europe,
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