12th October 2011 - Worker Hit by a Forklift Truck
An employee was left with a fractured leg after being hit by a reversing vehicle.A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found the company had failed to ensure the working enviroment was organised in such a way that vehicles and pedestrians could move around safely.
Extract taken from HSE website (13/10/11)
After the hearing HSE inspector Neil Ward said:
"This incident need not have happened. The company should have made sure, so far as was reasonably practicable, that there was physical segregation between its workers and its vehicles."
Since the incident, measures have now been implemented in the form of a barrier being put up along with the rethinking the layout of items in the working environment, reducing the need for employees to have to walk across the same area that the folklift operates in - these methods although simple, show that sensible preventative measures can be implimented without too much cost.
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