Whilst you are looking for forklift truck hire in and around Stockport SK1 you might like to be aware that a business was fined over £50,000 when a 60 year old employee was crushed and later died as a result of his injuries. It was found that the lift truck had been going round a corner when its driver performed an emergency stop in order to avoid hitting a member of staff. However the sudden breaking cause a steel coil situated on the forks to fall off pinning the man to the ground. The court found that no risk assessments had been carried out and that there was no safe system to safely separate pedestrians from vehicles on the site.

When you are searching for forklift truck hire in and around Stockport SK1 bear in mind that a cushion tire is not actually padded as the name implies, it is a solid rubber tire that has no inner tube. These are used mainly for warehouse type machines as they are only really suited to hard surfaces like concrete or tarmac.

Whilst you are looking for forklift truck hire in and around Stockport SK1 you might like to be aware that a company was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay over £11,000 in costs after one of its workers died in a lift truck accident. The company was prosecuted under the Health & Safety at Work Act for failure to use trained staff to drive its lift trucks and protect the safety of its employees.