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A company from Lancashire has been fined after an employee suffered personal injury in an accident at work.
The 29-year-old worker had been attempting to make repairs to the lifting mechanism of a fork lift truck whilst on the company site in Leigh. The man was forced to climb onto the roof of the vehicle in order to carry out the work and slipped from where he was standing, falling onto the concrete floor below. He was knocked unconscious for several minutes.
The work accident left the employee with serious head injuries and caused him to suffer with severe headaches and a painful swelling to his head, resulting in him needing to take a week off work.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation revealed that workers regularly climbed on top of the vehicles to carry out repairs despite not being provided with suitable climbing equipment, such as step ladders.
Trafford Magistrates' Court heard the company admitted to a breach of the Work at Height Regulations as a result of the accident at work. It was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £1,000 in court costs, following a successful prosecution by the HSE.
Speaking after the court hearing a HSE inspector commented that the accident at work could have easily been avoided had the company considered the potential dangers of climbing on the roof of the fork lift truck.
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