Whilst you are looking for Forklifts in and around Nottinghamshire you might like to be aware that a bakery was fined £25,000 and ordered to pay costs of £30,000 following an incident in which one employee was killed and another severely injured whilst using a lift truck to raise a 2 tonne dough mixing machine in order to gain access to the drive belt underneath, which had failed.

Whilst you are looking for Forklifts in and around Nottinghamshire 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 looking for Forklifts in and around Nottinghamshire bear in mind that two of the most important safety issues are lift truck stability and control of the load. Statistics show that tip-overs and falling loads are the two most common causes of accidents and injuries.