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Buckland Care Ltd a company which runs the Sunnybank House care home in Weymouth, Dorset, were fined £10,000 after they admitted six health and safety breaches.
Weymouth magistrates heard how the residents in the home were left without care after two staff members got locked in a kitchen and another injured herself plunging into a light well,.
Problems began when two members of staff became trapped in the kitchen. They phoned another member of staff, who rushed to Sunnybank but could not get in and then fell 3m into a light well. All three were freed by emergency services.
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