LONDON: UK Athletics has been fined £350,000 ($472,000) over the “wholly avoidable” death of a Paralympian who was killed when equipment fell on him at a training center in London in 2017.
Abdullah Hayayei, 36, was killed while preparing for the World Para Athletics Championships, which took place in July of that year.
A 5-foot-high (152-centimeter) metal cage toppled over because it was put up incorrectly and without its base plate, in an “accident waiting to happen,” the London court heard.
UK Athletics Ltd. pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter and on Tuesday was fined £350,000, plus £44,000 in costs, to be paid over six years.
Keith Davies, 79, who was head of sport for the championships, admitted a health and safety charge and was handed a community order of 175 hours of unpaid work.
