{"id":9197,"date":"2019-07-22T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T08:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/?p=9197"},"modified":"2019-07-22T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T08:45:15","slug":"company-fined-after-worker-killed-by-forklift-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/company-fined-after-worker-killed-by-forklift-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Company fined after worker killed by forklift truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">A manufacturer of calcium carbonate products has today been sentenced after a worker suffered fatal injuries when struck by a forklift truck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Magistrates Court heard how, on 24 July 2017, an employee of the company was struck by a forklift truck whilst walking in the designated pedestrian area of the site\u2019s roadway. She suffered severe crush injuries and tragically died on 8 August 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the measures in place to separate and segregate pedestrians from vehicles were inadequate, with the designated pedestrian walkway running, unprotected, down the centre of the roadway used by vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The company pleaded guilty to breaching Sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and has been fined \u00a3200,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a323,217.87.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Speaking after the case, the HSE inspector commented:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u201cFar too many people are killed and seriously injured by vehicles in the workplace every year. Provisional data for 2018-19 shows that of the 147 workers fatally injured, 30 of them were as a result of being struck by a moving vehicle. Many hundreds are left with life-changing injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u201cThe requirement to ensure adequate separation and segregation between pedestrians and vehicles is paramount. 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