The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a Lincolnshire company which manufactures tipper trailers, after a worker sustained fatal injuries after falling from a cherry picker at a factory in Grantham.
On 18 February 2016, the 64-year old worker fell while climbing from the basket of a cherry picker onto an overhead travelling crane to repair it.
The court heard that the work was not properly planned and was carried out without suitable harnesses and fall arrest equipment.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found that Fruehauf Limited had failed to provide and enforce a safe system of work for accessing the overhead cranes in the factory.
The company also did not have appropriate management arrangements in place for controlling, monitoring and reviewing the safety of maintenance tasks – and the activity was not properly risk assessed.
At Lincolnshire Magistrates’ Court, Fruehauf Limited of Houghton Road, Grantham in Lincolnshire pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 – and Regulations 3(1) and 5(1) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
The company was fined £200,000 and was also ordered to pay costs of £5,622.
After the hearing, HM Inspector Martin Giles said:
“Those in control of work have a responsibility to devise safe methods of working – and to provide the necessary information, instruction and training to their workers in the safe system of working.
“This incident could have been prevented had Fruehauf Limited provided appropriate supervision and suitable fall arrest equipment for their workers to wear and use.”
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