HSA | Kalmar Solutions AB (previously known as Cargotec Sweden AB), a Swedish based company, has been fined €150,000 and Scruttons (NI) Limited, a Northern Ireland based company, has been fined €300,000 following a Health and Safety Authority (HSA) investigation into an incident on 14 August 2019 where a haulier at Dublin Ferryport Terminal was struck and killed by a vehicle. The vehicle was manufactured by Kalmar Solutions AB and operated by Scruttons (NI) Limited.
Kalmar Solutions AB had previously pleaded guilty to failing to ensure that the vehicle, an empty container handler, was designed and constructed so as to be safe and without risk to health when properly used by a person at a place of work in that it failed to provide appropriate devices to remedy hazards due to restricted visibility from the driving position of the container handler, being a breach of section 16(1)(a) of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.
Scruttons (NI) Limited had also pleaded guilty to failing to identify the hazard of restricted visibility from the driving position whilst operating the empty container handler, assess the risks presented by the hazard, and be in possession of a written assessment at the place of work while work was in the course of being carried on, being a breach of Section 19(5) of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.
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