Horror truck accident costs Revelholme Marketing
A Nottingham-based cleaning products manufacturer has been fined after an employee was seriously injured when a powered industrial truck fell on him.
The unnamed worker's employer, Revelholme Marketing (trading as Unic International), was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay costs of £18,000.
A truck, which was used to lift and transport materials, was pulled over a kerb and fell onto the employee. The worker suffered a fractured cheekbone, multiple skull injuries and long term impaired vision after the incident.
Revelholme Marketing, of Colwick Road, Nottingham, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation.
The company was found guilty of breaching the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 at a three-day trial.
HSE inspector Stuart Pilkington said: "The stacker truck was mainly used in the factory and car park but on occasion employees used the truck to load lorries in the road.
"Although the road and car park were both flat, a slope between the two surfaces and the lip of the dropped kerb made the terrain unsuitable for this type of equipment to be used.
"Companies need to ensure that the work equipment they use, such as stacker trucks, is suitable for the task, and for the conditions in which it is used."
