A Merseyside Police spokesman said the 60-year-old plunged from the elevated platform on Princess Way, in Seaforth, Merseyside on Sunday morning.

The victim, who was pronounced dead at hospital was from Lymm in Cheshire, the spokesman added.

Both Merseyside Police and the Health and Safety Executive will be investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.

However, 4 million workers each year suffer some form of work related ill-health, up to 3,000 are killed in incidents in connection with work and 20,000 die from occupational diseases. Penalties for Health & Safety breaches - even if they kill or maim workers - are still derisory. The rate of workplace inspections carried out by HSE Inspectors is now so low that on average companies can expect a visit only once in every 17 years. Meanwhile, the government's new Corporate Manslaughter Bill has been welcomed by bosses' union the CBI - a sure sign that it will not further the interests of the working class.

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