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Archive November 2004

Female worker crushed by reversing forklift truck

30 November 2004

A company has been fined £6,000 for failing to monitor and supervise forklift truck movements in the packing area of its factory. The court heard that the driver had reversed up to the injured person and a colleague in order to have a short conversation with them. She was crushed between the truck and a steel packing table. She sustained a fractured pelvis, damage to internal organs, and a broken left leg and spent some four months in hospital. A colleague sustained a minor foot injury in...
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Lack of access ladder on scaffold led to fall

29 November 2004

A man on work experience suffered fractured ribs when he fell from a tower scaffold. The Company was fined £3000 after the magistrates court was told that there was no access ladder on the scaffold, and the working platform and edge protection was incomplete. The man was using the scaffold to maintain a fluorescent light fitting at a factory unit, which the Company was refurbishing. He climbed up the internal bracing of the scaffold and fell 4.5 metres when the bar he pulled on came away. The...
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2 articles were published in November 2004 on the Ai Solutions Blog.