{"id":10704,"date":"2022-02-25T09:50:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T09:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2022-02-25T09:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T09:50:32","slug":"manufacturing-company-fined-after-employee-suffered-fatal-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/manufacturing-company-fined-after-employee-suffered-fatal-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing company fined after employee suffered fatal injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>A manufacturing company has been fined after an employee was found fatally injured under the forks of a side-loader lift truck.<\/p>\n<p>A Magistrates Court heard that an employee was fatally injured at the company site during a lifting operation. The unsupported forks and carriage of a side-loader lift truck descended, crushing him whilst he was working underneath it.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company had failed to provide a safe system of work for unloading palletised goods using the side-loader forklift truck.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the company pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The company was fined \u00a318,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a310,153.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, an HSE Principal Inspector said: \u201cThis tragic incident could have easily been prevented if this employer had acted to identify and manage the risks involved and put a safe system of work in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\">Health and Safety Executive<\/a> (HSE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A manufacturing company has been fined after an employee was found fatally injured under the forks of a side-loader lift&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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