November 5, 2021
The employee became trapped between the trolley holding the chassis and a parked vehicle when the delivery vehicle moved in the incident on 18 April 2018, resulting in the employee being crushed.
The HSE found that the company did not have a safe system of work for unloading chassis. It said that the risks should have been controlled by offloading the chassis using a forklift truck or implementing a formalised system of work to safely unload them by hand.
Morgan Motor Company Manufacturing Limited of Pickersleigh Road, Malvern, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. The company was fined £60,000.
Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Elizabeth Thomas said: “A safe system of work should have been in place and this shows that even large, well-established companies can get things wrong.”
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