The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) ensured that another company that failed to abide and enforce workplace safety were prosecuted after a worker was killed. The commercial vehicle repair company based in Pytchley Road, Kettering, received fines in excess of £65,000, after Martin Carswell, 47, was crushed by a 24-tonne lorry, after the supports holding the vehicle collapsed.
The prosecutor told the jury how there weren't sufficient safety procedures in place to ensure the safety of workers. They were told how only a single support with a load capacity of 7.5 tonnes was used to support the rear of the 24-tonne vehicle, which as you would expect collapsed from the strain causing the death of the worker.
A spokesman from the HSE said: "This incident has shown, raising and working beneath these heavy vehicles can be very dangerous and the company should have completed a proper risk assessment and trained their employees in a safe system of work. Had they done so, Mr Carswell might have been more diligent in the way he went about raising and supporting this vehicle and this incident is far less likely to have occurred."
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