SSI 2017/350.
26th October 2017
WSI 2017/1026.
31st October 2017

A clothing and textile recycling company has been fined £650,000

A clothing and textile recycling company has been fined £650,000 and ordered to pay costs of £3,300 after an eighty-nine-year-old worker was fatally injured by a reversing delivery vehicle.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) showed the company had failed to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks arising from vehicle movement. It was custom and practice for vehicles to reverse from the weighbridge, which was also used by employees to access the factory. There were no measures in place to adequately segregate pedestrians from moving vehicles, and there wasn’t a safe system of work in place to ensure that vehicles could manoeuvre safely.