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Recycling firm in court after contractors hurt in fall

Recycling firm in court after contractors hurt in fall

A Leicestershire recycling company has been fined after two contractors fell more than two metres while fixing a roller-shutter door.

Richard Norton and Craig Dunn arrived at the Eurokey Recycling Ltd site in Hinckley on 21 February 2013 to carry out the work and found two forklift trucks, each with a caged container balanced on the prongs of the truck.

They got in and each cage was raised to two to three metres while the contractors removed the faulty part of the roller-shutter door. However, the cages were not lowered at the same speed, which destabilised the loads and caused them to fall to the ground.

Mr Norton, 43, of Leicester, broke his right wrist and was off work for five months. Mr Dunn, 30, of Sutton Coldfield suffered several torn muscles in his back and was unable to work for 12 weeks.

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that the containers did not have fork ‘pockets’ to secure them to the trucks and were not strapped to the forklift. In addition, neither of the men realised the containers were not man-cages designed to lift people, but were for goods transport.

Eurokey Recycling Ltd of Logix Road, R D Park, Hinckley, admitted two breaches of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and was fined £9,000 and ordered to pay costs of £1,880.

Advice on working at height can be found at www.hse.gov.uk/work-at-height/index.htm

 

 

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