Safety Flash
Worker fatally injured in falling from a scissor-lift platform which collided with another vehicle
Worker fatally injured in falling from a scissor-lift platform which collided with another vehicle
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 05/18
- Line of FireVehicles and DrivingWorking at Height
- Falls from height
- Vehicles and drivingWorking at height
- Simultaneous operations coordination
Summary
A worker suffered fatal injuries after an LGV struck his scissor-lift platform, ejecting him onto a roadway from a height of 1.5 metres. The flash reports HSE findings on inadequate planning of work at height and the need to segregate it spatially or temporally from workplace transport.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Simultaneous operations coordination; SIMOPS; simultaneous operations.
Summary
A vehicle collision with a scissor lift ejected a worker because work at height was not segregated from transport operations.
IMCA SF 05/18. Themes: line of fire, vehicles and driving, working at height.