Industry News » £9,000 fine plus costs for neglecting to maintain a fork lift truck properly

31-10-2007

Carole Ann Hible, trading as Specialised Movers, was fined £9,000 plus £4,335 costs following the death of lorry driver Stephen Michael Warner, who was crushed when a heavy machine fell from the forks of a lift truck. Hible pleading guilty at Market Drayton Magistrates' Court to breaching Regulation 5(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER), for neglecting to maintain the lift truck properly, and Regulation 8(1) of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations, for failing to carry out the lifting operation safely.

Source: Page 9, HSW Magazine, November 2007

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