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| Football club admits failures after boy was crushed by goalpost | |
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| A football club breached health and safety laws over the death of a 12-year-old who was crushed by a goalpost. | |
| Schoolboy Casey Breese was playing football with friends in a field in July 2011 when he was struck by the falling metal goalpost in Caersws, Powys. | |
| Caersws FC pleaded guilty to failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act. | Caersws FC pleaded guilty to failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act. |
| The club is to be sentenced at Mold Crown Court on Wednesday afternoon. | The club is to be sentenced at Mold Crown Court on Wednesday afternoon. |
| Twelve members of the club's committee appeared at the court in January. | |
| The hearing heard the club had failed to ensure safety or take all reasonable steps to ensure a freestanding goalpost provided for use at the club was safe and without risk of injury. | |
| Crush injury | |
| Casey's inquest in October 2012 heard the 12-year-old died during a kickabout with four friends. | |
| The hearing at Welshpool heard that the "freestanding" posts would have been unstable unless pegged to the ground. | |
| Casey was airlifted to hospital but died as a result of a crush injury. | |
| The inquest jury decided the death was accidental due to inadequate and unsuitable equipment used at the time. |