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A company has been fined and its director given a suspended prison sentence after a scaffolder suffered an 11,000-volt electric shock – leaving him with life-changing injuries. Canterbury City Scaffolding Ltd, based in Hoath, was hit with a £50,000 fine for its part in an incident in November 2021. The firm had been drafted in by Drinks Warehouse UK Ltd to erect a temporary roof structure over its open-air drinks depot in Snow Hill, Crawley, ready for the winter months. Steven Gilmore, 36, was working alongside a small team of scaffolders when he struck a live 11kV power line running across th…