Articles On: Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury

Employee Found Fatally Injured by Side Loading Forklift Truck

Posted: 13 April 2022

Posted in:  Contact with Moving Machinery, Fatal Accidents at Work, Manufacturing, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury, Workplace Personal Injury

A manufacturing company, Cutting Edge Trading Ltd, has been fined after their employee, Mitchell Poutney, was fatally injured when a forklift truck crushed him. An HSE investigation into the fatal injury caused by workplace machinery found that the forks which crushed Poutney were unsupported. They also observed that there was no safe working system in place for unloading pallets from the side-loader forklift truck. Meaning, other employees could potentially suffer from similar accidents at work. As Poutney had been working underneath when the loaded goods caused the forklift truck’s carriage…

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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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Teaching Assistant Falls Through Ceiling and Breaks Back in School

Posted: 21 March 2022

Posted in:  Education & Teaching, Falling From a Height, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury

A junior school in Todmorden has been sentenced after a teaching assistant fell through a fragile ceiling. The employee dropped four metres down through a loft space above the school hall, resulting in serious personal injury. The fall from height accident occurred after the TA, who entered the loft space to look for a spare desk, immediately stepped through a non-boarded area. After falling through the ceiling and down several meters, she suffered a broken back. She was hospitalised for three weeks. The school pleaded guilty to breaching section 6…

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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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18-Year-Old Injured by Negligent Recycling Company Suffers Several Broken Bones

Posted: 23 February 2022

Posted in:  Falling From a Height, Waste Management, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury

After a young employee was injured clearing a blockage, HSE has fined the recycling company responsible for the workplace accident. The employee fell through a waste chute, 4 meters above concrete. A fellow employee spotted the fall and attempted to catch him using the telescopic handler he was riding in. However, the machine operator only served to hit the falling employee with the waste bucket, which resulted in several broken bones. HSE’s investigation concluded that the waste recycling company – PG Skips Ltd – did not risk assess or provide…

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