A failure to realise the importance of separating working personnel and forklift trucks at its premises led to a serious industrial accident when a 61-year old employee had both his ankles and lower legs broken when a fork lift truck reversed into him at Verplas Ltd’s Dorset site on 9th March 2010.
At Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court Verplas Ltd of Verwood Industrial Estate, Blackhill, Verwood, Dorset, pleaded guilty to breaching S.2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was fined £10,000 with costs of £2,407.18th October 2011
Source: http://www.safetynews.co.uk/
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