Carpentry and joinery company fined £200,000

A midlands carpentry and joinery company has been fined £200,000 after a man cleaning office windows from an unsecured stillage on the forks of a fork-lift truck fell 3.5 metres to the ground. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company failed to identify that using a stillage to lift someone on the forks of a forklift truck, a method that they had used before, was unsafe.  There was a lack of training for employees on the dangers of working at height without the proper equipment and there were no systems of work or risk assessments in place.