The largest number of workplace transport accidents involve forklift trucks (about 25%), some of which are fatal or cause serious injury. People are knocked down, run over or crushed against forklift trucks. People also fall from vehicles, whether getting on or off, working at height or when loading or unloading. Here we look at steps […]
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Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently issued a safe notice regarding the Liquefied Petroleum Gas forklift truck fire risk. HSE said that there have been a number of fires, on and around LPG powered forklift trucks during starting. The issue is build-up of deposits in the fuel system like the vaporiser unit, flow regulator
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In April 2023, The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) fined AkzoNobel Packaging Coatings Limited £600,000 after a worker’s leg was crushed by a forklift truck. The accident occurred at the firm’s Birmingham site on Bordesley Green Road on 8 May 2018. The man was walking across a pedestrian crossing when a forklift truck collided with him, crushing
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There is no law which says forklift training has to be provided by an accredited training provider and a qualified trainer. You can be trained by an organisation with no accreditation and be issued with a certificate or you can be trained by a colleague at your workplace. However, if there is an accident, then
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John Fitzpatrick was waiting for his trailer to be loaded at Kingsland Drinks Ltd., a wine and drinks supplier’s depot in Irlam, Salford on 19 August 2020 when he was struck by a forklift truck. He suffered serious head injuries in the fatal accident. The 59 year old driver never regained consciousness after the forklift
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In Europe, the market for electric forklift trucks has been growing exponentially and is expected to continue growing at 13% per annum until 2030. The electric forklift truck market size is expected to reach £37 billion in Europe by 2030.The markets in UK and Germany are growing fastest. Forklift trucks such as reach, counterbalance, pallet
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Forklift truck is a big heavy piece of equipment, weighing as much as four average family cars or even more, and therefore any incident with a pedestrian may cause serious injury or can be fatal. In UK, about 25% of all workplace accidents involving a visit to a hospital are due to forklift truck accidents.
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Although this incident happened in Montana, USA it is such a compelling story that we thought our readers would find it interesting and informative for forklift operators. Loren Schauers was working on a bridge rehabilitation project in 2019, aged 19, when he was involved in an incident while driving a forklift truck which had serious
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In our last blog, we talked about what a forklift operator should expect from the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) visit. In this blog we look at a case study of the HSE inspector’s visit to a forklift operator. In 2019, the HSE inspector made a routine visit to a stone handling company. It found issues with
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In our last blog, Ruth Wallace of Wallace School of Transport alluded to the need to keep a full training record of forklift truck drivers, especially in case of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation. An HSE inspector can visit at any time and may arrive without warning. The highest incidence of workplace accidents involve
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