Safety Flash
UK HSE: Employee's foot crushed by forklift at maritime freight logistics company
UK HSE: Employee's foot crushed by forklift at maritime freight logistics company
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 30/20
- Control of WorkLine of FireVehicles and Driving
- Crushing and pinch pointsRisk management
- Vehicles and driving
- Risk assessment
- Marine industry
- Onshore facility
Summary
A worker suffered multiple foot fractures when a 15 tonne forklift ran over his foot while steel coils were being unloaded and stacked in a South Wales shed. The flash reports HSE prosecution of the maritime logistics company and findings of inadequate workplace transport risk control and assessment.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Onshore facility; onshore plant.
Summary
A forklift ran over a worker’s foot during steel-coil handling, exposing inadequate workplace-transport risk controls.
IMCA SF 30/20. Themes: control of work, line of fire, vehicles and driving.