If you are searching for hire a forklift in and around Lanarkshire you might like to be aware that an 18 year old worker had to have his leg amputated after it was crushed when the lift truck he was driving overturned in a pothole. It was later found that he was not trained or qualified to drive the lift truck.

While you are trying to find hire a forklift in and around Lanarkshire bear in mind that a used electric lift truck might have a battery with a bad cell. This does not necessarily mean that the battery needs to be replaced as it is sometimes possible to just replace a cell, which is a lot cheaper than fitting a new battery.

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