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Logistics firm fails to spot gap in safety

Logistics firm fails to spot gap in safety

A Northampton logistics firm has been prosecuted after an agency worker fell from a loading ramp at their site on the Isle of Grain in Kent.

The warehouse operative, 49, from Sittingbourne, suffered a broken thigh bone in the 1.5m fall as he was unloading fridges from a trailer-mounted shipping container on 13 November 2013. He was unable to return to work for three months.

Yusen Logistics (UK) Ltd, of Grange Park, appeared before Medway Magistrates following an investigation into the incident by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

The court was told the containers had to be unloaded while mounted on a trailer if they arrived at the Thamesport site by road, while sea-arriving containers were unloaded at ground level.

HSE found the workers were using a new unloading ramp, but discovered it had not had  the additional edge protection guarding fitted that the company’s other two ramps had in place. As a result, the injured man had limited protection from the fall when he unbalanced at the top of the ramp while helping to unload the fridges.

Yusen Logistics (UK) Ltd, of Cheaney Drive, Grange Park, Northampton, was fined £11,000 and ordered to pay £1,067 in costs after admitting a breach of the Work at Height Regulations 2005.

For advice on safe working at height visit, http://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/vehicles/preventingfalls.htm

 

 

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