Five people face manslaughter charges in the US over the death of a wind farm construction worker who was buried alive on the job, an incident that led a global renewables developer to agree a $12m settlement with the man’s family and pay almost $500,000 to fund employee safety measures.
Jonathan Stringer, 24, died in January 2020 when a trench collapsed during work on the Skookumchuck wind power project in the state of Washington, which was being developed by US entities of UK-based renewables group RES.
