A demolition firm has been fined £8,000 after a teenager was blinded in one eye while helping to demolish a mill in Tameside.
The 19-year-old was using a pickaxe to lever up wooden floorboards at Hyde Mill, on Ashton Road in Hyde on 8 September 2009, when he was hit in his left eye by a splinter.
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