Personal Injury Solicitor West Midlands

An Ayr recycling company was fined £80,000 after a worker was severely injured in an accident at work when he was crushed between two skips. The worker suffered horrendous injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life, but this incident was said to be entirely avoidable

The worker was standing in between two skips at a recycling centre run by when a shovel loader weighing more than 18 tonnes hit one of the skips, pushing it towards the other and crushing him between them.

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that the company had not properly risk assessed traffic management at their site in Ayr and had not provided and maintained a safe system of work in that there were no barriers or road markings to separate pedestrian workers from the shovel loader or other vehicles on site. The investigation also found that the shovel loader was too big for the area where it was operating, and that the drivers had never been formally trained, were not supervised, and had been given no training at all on health and safety issues.

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