Toppled load crushes worker
A Hertfordshire engineering firm has been fined for safety failings after a toppling fan unit crushed a worker as it was being manoeuvred into a ground floor plant room at a Surrey development.
The 54-year-old, who does not want to be named, injured his spine and was unable to work for several weeks as a result of the incident.
He was working for Wilden Services Limited, of Hemel Hempstead, which had been sub-contracted to install a ventilation system in a building.
Guildford Crown Court heard that the large fan unit, weighing some 630kg, fell over as it was being moved on a pallet truck and pinned him underneath.
Wilden Services Ltd was fined £15,000 and ordered to pay a further £7,148 in costs after pleading guilty to a breach of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
