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£54,000 penalty after worker suffers traumatic brain injury (2 August 2016)
Date: 02/08/2016
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a North Lincolnshire company, after a worker was injured while dismantling an HGV tipper lorry.
The incident occurred in April 2015, when two employees of R Martinson Limited were dismantling an HGV lorry using a telehandler as a mobile crane for lifting operations. During the operation, one employee operated the telehandler to remove a metal rail weighing around 44kg from the chassis, when it struck the second employee, 68-year-old George Henry Johnson.
Mr Johnson suffered a traumatic skull fracture which has left him with permanent injuries and reliant on other family members for his care.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive into the incident found that the company failed to adequately plan, organise, control and monitor the way in which the operation was undertaken.
HSE warns that using a telehandler to lift and move parts like a mobile crane is a high-risk activity – and the company failed to apply basic principles of health and safety management to reduce the risk of serious personal injury.
At Scunthorpe Magistrates’ Court on Friday 29 July, R Martinson Limited of Havering, The Bays Shore Road in Garthorpe, North Lincolnshire pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
The company was fined £53,300 and ordered to pay costs of £1,293.10.
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