THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JANUARY 4, 2010, 11:19 A.M. ET
LONDON (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) and two of its contractors have been fined a total of GBP283,332 by the U.K. Health and Safety Executive over an accident at the Stanlow refinery in Cheshire in 2007 that left a worker paralyzed below the waist, the regulator said Monday.
The HSE said the accident–in which a 500-kilogram container suspended above a walkway fell on worker Stephen Rizotti breaking his back, legs and pelvis–was totally avoidable.
“The scaffolding should have been constructed so that the lifting equipment was away from areas where people had to walk. The landing area should also have been suitably protected,” said HSE inspector Alan Graham.
Shell U.K. Oil Products and the contractor Dalprop, which employed Rizotti, pleaded guilty to contravening the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations of 1998. Shell was fined GBP116,666 and ordered to pay costs of GBP16,204. Dalprop was fined GBP83,333 with costs of GBP11,115.
Hertel U.K., which installed the scaffolding and platforms used for the project, pleaded guilty to contravening the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and was fined GBP83,333 and ordered to pay costs of GBP16,204.
Company Web site: http://www.shell.com
-By James Herron, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)20 7842 9317; [email protected]
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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