Whilst you are looking for fork trucks in and around Somerset 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.

Whilst you are looking for fork trucks in and around Somerset you might like to be aware that a 50 year old warehouseman received over £50,000 in compensation when his leg was crushed between a wall and a broken down Lift truck he was helping to move. It was found that the employer had inadequate safety measures in place and no safe system for dealing with broken down lift trucks.

While you are searching for fork trucks in and around Somerset it might be worth considering that lift trucks are industrial machines that are built to have a long life expectancy and most should last at least 20,000 hours of use.