A Hampshire lift manufacturer has been prosecuted after a lorry driver was killed while delivering goods to its factory in Romsey.
Adam Millichip, 27, from Tenbury Wells, was working for a Worcester-based haulage company and was delivering pallets of sheet steel to Wessex Lift Co Limited in Hampshir…
Palletways (UK) Ltd. has been fined after a forklift driver broke his neck when a computer cabinet he was loading onto a trailer fell on him.
Barry Hill, 60, was operating the truck at Palletways (UK) Ltd, Fradley Distribution Park, when he noticed that one of the cabinets was rocking on the fork…
Vesuvius UK Limited has been fined after a forklift truck driver fell from a ramp whilst unloading a lorry.
Andrew Baxter, 50, from Eckington was unloading a 20ft container at Vesuvius UK Limited's Sheepbridge Works in Chesterfield on 15 February 2010.
Mr Baxter was using a forklift truck and mobi…
Two companies have been fined a total of £100,000 following the death of a maintenance worker who fell from the forks of a forklift truck at a Macclesfield factory.
Martin Denton, 60, was being lifted in a metal container, known as a stillage, on 10 June 2006 when it slipped off and he fell approxi…
A Dorset manufacturing firm was today fined after a lorry delivery driver was run over by a fork lift truck, reports the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Kelvin Davey, 61, from Verwood, Dorset, had both his ankles and lower legs broken when the fork lift truck reversed into him at Verplas Ltd's …
Colleagues say that a Bath Iron Works maintenance worker, who was injured around 1pm on Monday afternoon while changing a tyre, made it through surgery and is in stable condition at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
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Fertiliser Solutions Ltd. has been fined after a worker was seriously injured when a 600kg bag of ammonium nitrate fell on him.
Robert Dearlove, 32, was part of a team clearing up a spillage after several bags of ammonium nitrate fell from a stack at a warehouse in Middlesbrough.
The Health and Safe…
SIG Trading Limited has been fined after a worker was seriously injured when he was run over twice by a forklift truck.
Livingston Sheriff Court heard a SIG Trading Ltd forklift driver was moving a large metal coil with a forklift truck inside the company's warehouse on Houston Industrial Estate.
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Following news of a man being killed in a forklift incident, it's worth pointing out that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) provides valuable advice for anyone making use of forklift trucks in the workplace.
The HSE's free-to-download guidance 'Safety in working with lift trucks' states that th…
Vion Food Scotland Ltd. has been fined £100,000 after a worker was killed when he was hit by a forklift truck so badly loaded its driver could not see him.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports that George Hardie, 60, was walking across the yard at the company premises in West Lothian, on 2…
A Sheffield crane driver died from massive crush injuries just weeks before he was due to become a father, a court was told yesterday.
Alan Winters, 28, was killed when he and colleagues attempted to unload a four-ton crate from a shipping container at the DavyMarkham Ltd factory in Darnall, Sheffie…
A 44-year old farm worker received fatal head injuries in a 3-metre fall from a forklift truck during work to deposit fertiliser into a bin on a farm at Yarrawonga, Victoria.
The Orlando Sentinal reports that Tracy Irwin, 53, suffered fatal injuries when metal scaffolding fell from a forklift and hit her. It is reported that Irwin worked for a subcontractor for Cirque du Soleil, which has been renting the Amway Arena, where the incident occurred.
A Buckinghamshire plant hire company and one of its mechanics have been fined after a forklift truck overturned, killing the driver.
The Health and Safety (HSE) investigation found that Morgans Plant Hire Ltd, based in Oakley, Buckinghamshire, failed to ensure that the fork lift truck was in good wo…
Calsonic Kansei UK Limited has been fined £400,000 after an employee died on the day he was to take voluntary redundancy.
Darren Small, 35, from Loughor was struck by a forklift truck on 17 March 2008.
The company pleaded guilty to a charges under Section 2(1) and Section 3(1) of the Health and Sa…
An international frozen food company has been fined after a worker was injured by the moving blades of an industrial freezer.
More than 70 firms across West Yorkshire have been told to make safe…
Lancashire couple in court after repeated injuries
A Lancashire couple has been prosecuted after an employee was seriously injured twice in less than two months at a pine furniture workshop in Bacup.
Restoration firm fined after wall collapse
A Wiltshire construction company has been prosecuted afte…
Survey shows majority of motorists ignore tiredness
New research carried out by road safety charity Brake and insurance firm Direct Line shows that the vast majority of drivers admit to driving while tired - in a survey of 800 drivers, they found that 74 per cent admitted to driving tired during the…
A man has become the eighth worker to die this year at a Chinese electronics factory, which makes iPhones and iPads, after he was killed in a fall.
Missing rivet may have caused crash
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said a small rivet head that kept the f…
Temporary worker badly scalded
FMC Chemicals Ltd has been fined after a temporary worker was badly scalded while using steam to unblock pipes containing lithium chloride in June 2008. The firm had already been issued with a warning after a worker was burned during maintenance work in 2007.
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