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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