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Leeds Scaffolding Firm Fined £60K For Safety Breaches

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A scaffolding company has been sentenced for safety breaches after a worker was crushed by a forklift truck.

Leeds Magistrates Court heard how in October 2016, a Whiterose Scaffolding (Leeds) Ltd operative was using a forklift truck in the yard when the vehicle overturned, trapping him underneath it for some time.

The worker sustained serious life changing internal injuries. He now lives with constant chronic pain and has severe mobility issues.

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that the company had failed to provide training to their employees on the safe operations of forklift trucks, which would have included the importance of wearing seatbelts.

The company also failed to provide adequate supervision and monitoring of the forklift truck operators to ensure they were only operated by trained drivers and that safe driving techniques were followed.

Whiterose Scaffolding (Leeds) Ltd of Holbeck Lane, Leeds pleaded guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and has been fined £54,270 and ordered to pay £8000 in costs.

After the hearing, HSE inspector Andrea Jones commented: “The employee’s injuries were life changing and could have been fatal. The impact has been devastating on him and his family. Other employees were put at risk as a result of the company allowing fork lift trucks to be used without the appropriate training and monitoring of drivers.

“Those in control of work have a responsibility to devise safe methods of working and to provide the necessary information, instruction and training to their workers in the safe system of working”.

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