While searching for fork truck hire in and around Hexham NE47 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.

Tip - If you are trying to find fork truck hire near Hexham NE47 you may need to be aware that a forklift truck is a machine that has forks to lift loads whereas telehandlers have forks that extend outwards and upwards away from the telehandler body.

Whilst you are looking for fork truck hire in and around Hexham NE47 you might like to be aware that an employer was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay over £800 in costs when a HSE inspector noticed an employee being lifted eight feet into the air on a lift truck to fit a company sign to their own premises. Although no one was injured on the occasion, this incident had all the hallmarks of an accident waiting to happen. Accidents involving fork lift trucks account for a large proportion of accidents in the workplace and it is an employer’s responsibility to ensure that drivers are properly trained and use the equipment properly.