{"id":9344,"date":"2019-10-28T15:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/?p=9344"},"modified":"2019-10-28T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:04:27","slug":"ferry-operator-prosecuted-after-worker-injured-by-moving-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/ferry-operator-prosecuted-after-worker-injured-by-moving-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry operator prosecuted after worker injured by moving vehicle"},"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 ferry operator has been prosecuted after an employee sustained serious injuries when he was struck by a van being reversed out of a docked vessel.<\/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 that on 17 September 2017 a pontoon traffic marshal working for the ferry operator, was struck by a 3.5 tonne delivery van at the company\u2019s port terminal. The van was being reversed off the vessel onto the pontoon area by a port service operative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The vehicle reversed over the marshal\u2019s head and body after the initial collision had knocked him down. The gentleman suffered multiple injuries that included numerous fractures to his skull, ribs and other bones along with the loss of sight in one eye. He has been left with double vision in the other eye and ongoing mental health problems.<\/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 there was no consideration of physical segregation of pedestrian operatives from moving vehicles when vessels were being unloaded. The company had failed to adequately assess the risks to pedestrians from moving vehicles and consequently put in place effective control measures leading to a safe system of work.<\/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 Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. The company was fined \u00a3400,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a36576.15.<\/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 HSE inspector said after the hearing, \u201cThe injuries sustained by the gentleman, which affect him to this day, were easily preventable. The risks to pedestrians from moving vehicles is an obvious one which should have been identified and controlled.<\/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;\">\u201cHad the company employed suitable control measures the life changing physical and emotional injuries which continue to impact the gentleman and his family would have been avoided.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ferry operator has been prosecuted after an employee sustained serious injuries when he was struck by a van being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9344","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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