Whilst you are looking for used forklifts for sale in and around Greater London you might like to be aware that a manufacturing company was fined £30,000 after a young worker was pinned by a lift truck against a wall and killed instantly. A lift truck was unloading a lorry in a narrow street when an oncoming vehicle forced it to reverse rapidly to get out of its way. The lift truck driver did not see the young worker leaving from the rear exit and hit him with the rear of his vehicle.

When you are searching for used forklifts for sale in and around Greater London you might like to note that one of the reasons that potential customers sometimes shy away from refurbished lift trucks is perceived poor reliability compared with brand new models.

While searching for used forklifts for sale in and around Greater London you might like to be aware that a farming company was fined £35,000 and ordered to pay costs of over £17,000 after an incident where an employee died when he was crushed against a mobile cleaning machine by a lift truck. He had finished processing wheat seeds when his colleague got onto the lift truck to move the last bag. When the driver started the vehicle it suddenly moved forward, trapping him against the machine.