Lifting operations

The director of a construction firm has received a six-month custodial sentence, suspended for 24 months, for failing to plan the lifting of roof trusses.

The operator of Walkabout pubs has been prosecuted after a stack of chairs crushed a worker in a service lift.

A Carlisle auto-salvage company has been fined after a customer was fatally crushed when a lift truck he had purchased was being loaded onto his own recovery vehicle.

A 33-year-old Lithuanian worker has been killed at a London construction site after a re-enforced concrete slab collapsed following an order from his supervisor to remove the props supporting it.

The boss of a coach company failed to provide training on the safe lifting of vehicles to a mechanic who died after being crushed under a bus, a court has been told.

Boal UK has been ordered to pay £133,000 after a worker sustained serious hand and leg injuries during a failed lifting operation.

The director of a building firm has been sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment after he fatally crushed an employee with a digger.

Port operator The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a banksman was seriously injured when he was crushed by a bundle of steel weighing nearly two tonnes.

An engineering company in Scotland has been fined following the death of an employee who was struck by a wooden bearer in the yard of a fabrication workshop.

A Coventry-based company that manufacturers stands for exhibitions has been fined £161,000 after an employee was knocked unconscious and sustained a broken collar bone during the unsafe lift and move of a park home chassis.