If you are trying to find hire a forklift in and around Canterbury CT4 bear in mind that statistics suggest that as many as two thirds of lift truck accidents kill or injure someone who was not driving the lift truck at the time, meaning that anybody visiting or working in a business that operates lift trucks could be at risk.

Tip - If you are considering hire a forklift near Canterbury CT4 it may be useful to you to know that in the UK a standard pallet is around 2tonnes in weight and therefore a standard forklift will carry up to 2.5tonnes.

Whilst you are looking for hire a forklift in and around Canterbury CT4 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.