A Company has recently been fined over £130,000 plus further costs after an agency driver lost a leg following an accident at its Slough depot.
The driver was pushing a trolley carrying parcels alongside a row of vehicles. When he reached the end of the row, a forklift truck reversed out of a shutter door, striking the driver and trapping his foot in the rear wheel.
The HSE stated that the yard was not organised correctly to allow pedestrians to safely access vehicles that were parked on either side of the site. The operator was found to have incomplete risk assessments for the lift trucks to load and unload and no physical barriers had been put in place to segregate pedestrians from vehicles.
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https://www.rtitb.co.uk/news/company-fined-after-worker-loses-leg-in-forklift-accident
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