Three companies have been given six-figure fines after a driver was crushed between a reversing HGV and a forklift truck in a warehouse beside Heathrow Airport. An employee of Davies Turner Air Cargo Limited was collecting a consignment from Airworld Airlines Ltd’s site at the X2 Hatton Cross Centre, which is alongside the airport, in […]
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A company has been fined after an employee was struck by an excavator and fatally crushed.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that a crusher was being prepared for use following transportation from another quarry to Leiths (Scotland) Ltd, Kishorn Quarry, Nr Strathcarron, Wester-Ross, Scotland. Pawel Kocik was struck by a quick hitch on the dipper arm of an excavator and crushed between the quick hitch and side of the feed hopper of […]
A Lincolnshire-based food manufacturer fined after one of its employees sustained two broken ribs having been crushed within an industrial cooking machine.
Lincoln Magistrates’ Court heard how the employee was crushed in the machine after its safety systems were over-ridden and the machine worked on whilst it was live. It should have been isolated before work on it began. An investigation carried out by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the task was carried out […]
An installer of fire suppression systems and a manufacturer of alcoholic drinks fined after an employee was crushed by machinery
An employee of Fire Protection Group (FPG) was working at Chivas Brothers Limited (CBL) premises when he was crushed and trapped in a Kardex Remstar Shuttle XP500 machine. Dumbarton Sheriff Court heard that, a fire alarm engineer, employed by FPG, was undertaking a visual inspection of fire suppression systems at CBL’s bottling plant in Kilmalid, […]
Logistics company fined £84,000 after driver suffers crush injuries
A Newport-based logistics company has been fined after a driver was crushed by a full pallet when his lorry was being unloaded. Newport Magistrates’ Court heard how an employee of Freight Movement Limited was seriously injured when a pallet loaded with 920kg of cardboard packaging toppled from a forklift and landed on him. The driver […]