Fined £35,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. IP was loading parcels from a dock into the rear of a 7.5 tonne vehicle. On stepping onto the vehicle the driver pulled away from the dock causing IP to fall from the back of the vehicle approx four feet to the floor. - 18/12/09
£5,134 under HASAWA 1974 s2. IP, 53, was nearing the end of a night shift at the company's depot. His job involved unloading the HGVs that brought parcels to the distribution centre, sorting for local delivery and then loading onto smaller delivery lorries. The incoming and outgoing vehicles were reverse parked in loading bays, connected to the sorting centre by manual loading ramps. Mr IP was still in the back of one of the smaller lorries when the driver unexpectedly pulled away from the loading dock. He fell from the rear of the vehicle, from a height of about four feet, and fractured his thigh bone when he landed on the ground. - 21/12/09
fined £14,000, costs of £3,205 and £15 victim surcharge under HASAWA 1974 s3. A visiting driver suffered serious injuries, when he was struck by a moving reel of paper nearly a metre wide and weighing around 1.5 tonnes whilst helping to unload a delivery. The driver was removing securing chocks to large paper reels to allow them to be rolled to the back of a trailer for unloading when a large reel at the back rolled towards the front of the trailer crushing the driver between two other reels.
Fined a total of £2,000 under MHSWR 1999. Deceased was unloading shingle, he reversed his articulated tipping trailer up to the unloading bay which is on a slope and activated the power takeoff shaft without first releasing the tailgate. The vehicle became unstable and moved down the slope, deceased jumped back into cab, the lorry reached the bottom of the slope and jack-knifed, throwing him out of the open door and under the wheels of the vehicle.
Fined £10,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. IP was unloading lorry by hand when the load unexpectedly moved causing him to fall to the ground sustaining serious injuries. Failure to provide adequate information, plant, equipment and systems of work whereby employee, not having been informed how heavy load of pipes was, decided to unload manually. - 24/10/07
The driver of a ride-on pallet truck was injured when the refrigerated trailer in which he was working dropped as it lost pneumatic pressure, causing a gap to open between its own threshold and the edge of a loading bay. The driver and pallet truck fell down the gap. Unsafe system of work. -
Forklift truck driver IP severely injured when the forklift truck he was driving overturned. The HGV he was loading and unloading moved whilst the forks of the forklift were still inside the trailer of the HGV.
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