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Powder coating company must pay £30k for selecting wrong trolley for job

Open-access content Wednesday 19th August 2020
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Polycarbonate sheets weighing 34kg each toppled onto a worker, shattering his lumbar vertebrae

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A powder coating company has been ordered to pay £30k in fines and costs after twin wall polycarbonate sheets weighing 340kg toppled onto a worker, shattering his lumbar vertebrae.

On 27 July 2017, the employee was checking the straps on a wheeled A-frame trolley containing 10 polycarbonate sheets weighing 34kg each, when the load unexpectedly toppled onto him pushing him to the ground. Colleagues had to lift the six-metre long sheets off the worker and call for an ambulance.

Southampton Magistrates’ Court was told the injured worker had to be kept in a lying down position on his back for two weeks in hospital.

'Any flat profile material should be secured against falling or slipping out'

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigators found that C & R Powder Coating and Welding Fabrication had failed to ensure the safety of workers, or engaged in the transfer and storage of plastic sheeting on a trolley. The trolley was not long enough to transport the sheets and had no means for ensuring the straps being used would stay in place.

The firm admitted breaching regulation 4 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER). It was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,338.

'Accidents like this can happen with plastic sheets but equally with wood board, steel plate or stone slabs,' warned HSE inspector Berenice Ray.

'Any flat profile material should be secured against falling or slipping out as the consequences can be a serious injury or even a fatality.'

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