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FTT becomes Member of BITA

FTT is pleased to announce its Associate Membership of the British Industrial Truck Association (BITA). BITA, the British Industrial Truck Association, is the UK’s leading trade association for forklift truck manufacturers and suppliers, companies supplying associated components and services, and … Continue reading →

Untrained apprentice trapped under 14-tonne bus

A teenage apprentice suffered serious facial injuries when he became trapped under a bus after its air suspension failed.   Ben Burgin, 17 was working at Stagecoach Yorkshire’s garage at Wakefield Road in Barnsley, when the incident took place on … Continue reading →

Fatal Loader Crane Tip Over

A incident with a loader crane at Ipswich docks on Friday night has left one man dead and another seriously injured. The men were reportedly loading a pontoon or small boat onto the flatbed truck with a knuckle boom loader … Continue reading →

Lifting diagram followed by workers was “impossible”

A fitter suffered fatal head injuries when he became trapped between two massive nine-metre steel structures during a lifting operation. Quarrying plant and equipment manufacturer Parker Plant was sentenced on 27 October and fined £180,000, plus £47,500 in a contribution … Continue reading →

Engineering firm fined for safety breaches

A precision engineering company has been fined for failing to prevent access to dangerous parts on one of its machines, even after several warnings at its site in Hailsham, East Sussex. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Metaltech Precision … Continue reading →

Building company fined after construction worker seriously injured by falling stone

A 56-year-old self-employed construction worker suffered a serious head injury and permanent personality changes after a 10kg stone fell nearly three metres hitting him on the head at a building site in Abbots Leigh, near Bristol. North Somerset Magistrates’ Court … Continue reading →

Lorry driver fined after worker crushed in brick clamp

An experienced lorry loader operator from Radstock, Somerset has been fined after another worker was crushed in the brick clamp of the lorry loader, leaving him with serious internal injuries. Yeovil Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 18 November 2010, Mark … Continue reading →

Exeter firm fined over worker’s injury

A visiting worker suffered severe leg injuries when he was hit by a reversing telehandler vehicle at a waste transfer site near Exeter. Andrew Grist, of Newton Abbot, suffered a detached calf muscle, a near severed toe and broken bones … Continue reading →

Pair fined £13,000 for scaffolding collapse at Exeter trading estate

Partners in a company that erected unsafe scaffolding, which crashed to the ground in strong winds, were sentenced today (Weds 16 November). Terrence Foster, of Scaffolding Systems South West, was fined £8,000 and his partner in the business, Shaun Greenslade, … Continue reading →