2 August 2011. A parcel delivery company has been fined £150,000 after an employee was seriously injured by a heavy goods vehicle, in an accident at work. Twenty two year old Simon Mason, of Romford, in Essex, was working at the Tufnells Parcels Express, warehouse in West Horndon near Brentwood, when a reversing articulated HGV, crushed his skull against a loading bay wall.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive revealed that Mr. Mason was working the nightshift at the warehouse and was preparing to unload the vehicle as it reversed into a loading bay.
When the trailer stopped moving the warehouse porter noticed it needed to be straightened up but as he leaned behind the trailer to shout instructions to the driver it continued reversing crushing the man’s skull. Mr. Mason suffered a serious head injury in the accident which required months of care and several operations, he has since returned to work but still suffers the long term ill affects if his injuries.
Tufnells Parcels Express Ltd, whose head office is located at Shepcote Lane, in Sheffield, was fined £150,000 and ordered to pay costs totalling £19,000 after admitting a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act, at Chelmsford Crown Court.
Last year alone 530 workers suffered serious personal injury and 17 lost their lives after being involved with a moving vehicle in an accident at work.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive revealed that Mr. Mason was working the nightshift at the warehouse and was preparing to unload the vehicle as it reversed into a loading bay.
When the trailer stopped moving the warehouse porter noticed it needed to be straightened up but as he leaned behind the trailer to shout instructions to the driver it continued reversing crushing the man’s skull. Mr. Mason suffered a serious head injury in the accident which required months of care and several operations, he has since returned to work but still suffers the long term ill affects if his injuries.
Tufnells Parcels Express Ltd, whose head office is located at Shepcote Lane, in Sheffield, was fined £150,000 and ordered to pay costs totalling £19,000 after admitting a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act, at Chelmsford Crown Court.
Last year alone 530 workers suffered serious personal injury and 17 lost their lives after being involved with a moving vehicle in an accident at work.
