Father crushed in work place accident
Posted on May 15th 2009
A HGV repair company is currently on trial at Leicester Crown Court accused of breaching Health and Safety Regulations after a foreman crushed his father in between a lorry cab and a trailer in a freak accident.
The foreman had been reversing a cab in to the workshop to hook up a trailer that his father had repaired whilst being watched back by a colleague who had given him the thumbs up. They were not aware that his father had returned back to the trailer causing him to be crushed, suffering a punctured lung, fractured ribs and a broken collarbone.
The HGV Repair Company currently denies failing to ensure health, safety and welfare of employees had been taken in to consideration and also that they had failed to make a suitable and sufficient risk assessment.
A prosecutor commented that the firm had identified potential dangers in a risk assessment but failed to ever provide any solutions.
The trial is still running.
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