Waste firm fined after accident at work left 60-year-old with life-threatening injuriesRSS Feed

An industrial waste firm has been fined after a forklift truck backed into a 60-year-old employee, with the accident at work resulting in life-threatening injuries.

Collier Industrial Waste Ltd was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £9,410 after a 35-tonne vehicle reversed into a worker at its plant on Nash Road in Trafford Park.

The worker was left with severe injuries after the incident, including damage to internal organs and multiple broken bones, and had to remain in hospital for several months.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the company did not have sufficient systems in place to protect workers from reversing vehicles on the site.

This could have included having marked walkways, a one-way system, or making sure any reversing vehicles were guided by another worker on the ground.

After the hearing, HSE Inspector Daniel Longdon said: "There were several systems the company could have introduced to make sure workers were not put at risk by moving vehicles. Most of these would have been simple and inexpensive."

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Posted by M E Dixon
 

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