Articles On: Moving Vehicles
Injuries from collisions with moving vehicles at the workplace
Durham Waste Firm Employee Run Over by Excavator
Posted: 19 August 2025
Posted in: Contact with Moving Machinery, Fractures, Moving Vehicles, North East England, Waste Management
A waste management company in County Durham has received a fine following an incident where a 24-year-old employee was run over by an excavator. The company, Farm XS (Northern) Limited, was sentenced for the occurrence on January 29, 2024. The incident occurred while the employee was performing his duties, which involved sorting and moving waste materials at the site in close proximity to dangerous vehicles. According to reports, he was hit from behind by the excavator and subsequently run over. As a result, he sustained fractures to both of his…
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Driver Crushed By Vehicle At Work Suffers Severe Damage To Arm
Posted: 19 August 2022
Posted in: Fractures, Moving Vehicles, The South West, Transport & Storage, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury
During October 2019, an employee of Stagecoach Devon Ltd was crushed by a vehicle in his depot. A culture of complacency cost the man usage of his arm. It had become custom for drivers to reverse without a banksman or rely on other, untrained drivers. Buses would reverse out of the depot to become ready for transporting people. In the top area, where most of the buses were parked, a banksman – the only one for the whole depot – would direct the vehicles out safely. However, due to the…
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Faulty Brakes Seriously Injure Construction Employee Operating Truck
Posted: 30 March 2022
Posted in: Construction & Building, Internal Injuries & Organ Damage, Moving Vehicles
A company’s failure to maintain the working condition of a dumper truck has caused and employee to suffer serious personal injuries. Nelson Plant Hire, of Andover in Hampshire, neglected to keep the brakes of a key vehicle in working condition and have since been fined by HSE for the incident involving the faulty equipment. The workplace accident, which took place in May 2018, saw a large articulated dumper truck working on top of a steep slope, near a public road. The operator of the truck began reversing down the slope…
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Boss of Scrap Company Runs Over Employee with Forklift Truck
Posted: 3 March 2022
Posted in: Moving Vehicles, Waste Management, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury
Both a vehicle scrap company, and its sole director, Ghol Mohammad Navabi, have been fined after causing serious crushing injuries to an employee whilst operating a forklift truck. The unnamed worker of Cambridge-based Queensferry Car Breakers Ltd suffered multiple fractures in both their legs in the workplace accident. On 1st March 2021, the employee was asked to collect a car bonnet by Navabi, who was operating the forklift truck. He left the container they were both in to fetch the object down a ramp, but he was quicker than expected.…
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Accidents Involving Moving Vehicles at Work — Claim Compensation
Posted in: Moving Vehicles
If you’ve been hit by a moving vehicle in your workplace, be it a forklift, lorry, or anything in between, we can help you claim work injury compensation. Contact us today to get no-obligation guidance on your accident, at to find out if you have a no win, no fee * claim. Workplace moving vehicle accidents in the UK Accidents involving moving vehicles at work aren’t particularly common, but they are exceptionally dangerous. The second-highest cause of fatal workplace injuries were from workers being struck by vehicles, with 30 fatalities…
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