Midland Heart Housing Association has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay £35,000 in costs after a man died from severe burns after he was scalded in a bath.
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Anthony Ironmonger, 75, died in December 2007 after suffering burns in a bath at Summer Hill House, Birmingham Crown Court was told.
A second man, Kevin Clarke, also suffered scalding in a bath at another home in August 2008 but was treated and discharged from hospital.
Birmingham City Council prosecuted the Birmingham based housing association. Midland Heart admitted two breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act. It was fined £80,000 in relation to Mr Ironmonger and £20,000 in relation to Mr Clarke, who was 40 at the time of the incident at the Snow Hill home.
More details available here.
