Articles On: Internal Injuries & Organ Damage
Accidents resulting in internal injury or organ damage
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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