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Forklift accidents and prosecutions 2022 - 2023
The really good news is that fatal accidents involving forklift trucks in the United Kingdom have decreased over time. In the year to April 2013 there were only six fatal accidents which, although too many, is much lower than the 30 annual deaths that were reported annually when I started in the forklift industry in 1970.
Some of the more recent forklift accidents that have come to my attention are listed below and I will update these on an ongoing basis.
Here is a great article that explains many things companies can do to reduce or prevent forklift truck accidents.
November 17th 2023.A Manufacturing company, Barcode Warehouse Ltd, has been fined £500,000 after a man died when a forklift truck overturned. Read More
October 9th 2023. Two construction companies have been fined a combined total of £120,000 after a groundworker suffered horrific injuries when heavy drainage pipes fell on top of him. Read More
September 30th 2023. Two people died following incidents in 2019 and 2020 respectively at Valencia Waste Management Limited, formerly known as Viridor Waste Management Limited. Read More
August 6th 2023. A Blackpool clothing firm has been fined £40,000 after a man was seriously injured when he was hit by a forklift truck. Read More, (Video).
July 18th 2023. A transport company has been fined £255,000 after a worker fell from a lorry and fractured his skull. Read More
May 25th 2023. A waste and recycling company has been fined after an employee’s leg was amputated after he was run over by a telehandler. Read More
May 23rd 2023. Darlington man killed whilst unloading lorry in accident when piece of machinary fell on him. Read More
May 23rd 2023. A Lancashire trucking company has been fined after a mechanic died while repairing a forklift truck. Read More
April 14th 2023. Worker's leg crushed in forklift accident as he walked across a pedestrian crossing at the plant. Read More
April 10th 2023. An East Yorkshire garden landscaping supply company has been fined £600,000 after an employee died while loading a lorry. Read More
March 10th 2023. A wine and drinks supplier has been fined after a visiting HGV driver was killed after being hit by a forklift truck at its depot in Salford. Read More
February 14th 2023. A building firm has been fined for a catalogue of health and safety failings that included two builders being lifted into the air by a raised telehandler bucket. Read More
January 31st 2023. A director has been given a suspended prison sentence and two firms have been fined after a worker was killed when glass panes fell on top of him while unloading a shipping container from a lorry. Read More
January 26th 2023. A company must pay more than £100,000 after one of its employees was left with life-changing injuries when a pallet of glass weighing more than one tonne fell on top of him. Read More
January 2nd 2023. A Scottish confectionery and meringue manufacturer has been fined £5,000 after a worker was badly injured in a fall from a forklift truck. Read More
December 20th 2022. The wife of a man left severely disabled by a workplace accident says he is a “stranger in her husband’s body”. Read More
November 15th 2022. Three companies have been given six-figure fines after a driver was crushed between a reversing HGV and a forklift truck in a warehouse beside Heathrow Airport. Read More
November 4th 2022. A logistics company has been fined £400,000 after a worker broke his back when he fell from a forklift truck. Read More
October 26th 2022. I don't usually put articles on here about accidents which happen outside the UK but this teenager from Montana has suffered the most horrific injuries I have ever seen in a survivor and is a model of courageousness. Read More
October 10th 2022. A carpentry and joinery company has been fined after a man working unsecured on the forks of a fork-lift truck fell 3.5 metres to the ground. Read More
October 4th 2022. A cargo handling company has been fined after an employee was fatally crushed between shipping containers whilst working in a container park in Portsmouth. Read More
August 17th 2022. A carpentry and joinery company has been fined after a man working unsecured on the forks of a fork-lift truck fell 3.5 metres to the ground. Read More
August 8th 2022. A 'chemical incident' which sparked a huge emergency service response in Rochdale involved a container of acid being 'punctured by a forklift truck'. Read More
July 27th 2022. A cardboard manufacturer has been sentenced after a visiting lorry driver suffered life changing injuries when he was struck by a forklift truck. Read More
July 24th 2022. A 'well-respected' dad was killed when the forklift truck he was driving toppled over at a waste management firm in Cadishead. Read More
July 1st 2022. The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) has prosecuted NK Coatings Limited in Newtownabbey following a forklift fatal accident. Read More
June 6th 2022. A seafood processing company has been fined after a worker died following injuries sustained when she was run over by a forklift. Read More
May 26th 2022. Two businesses have been fined for safety breaches after a HGV driver suffered a fracture to one of his neck vertebrae when pallets fell onto him. Read More
May 17th 2022. Yorkshire Dairy Goats has been fined for safety breaches after a farm worker was run over and fatally wounded. Read More
May 9th 2022. An engineering company specialising in the manufacture of containers and drums for the nuclear, aerospace and medical industries has been sentenced after a worker was fatally injured. Read More
April 7th 2022. A company and three of its bosses have been fined more than £2m over the death of a worker who suffered catastrophic head injuries at a scrap metal recycling plant in Oldbury. Read More
March 23rd 2022. A recycling company has been fined after an employee was injured whilst clearing a blockage in a waste metal chute and hitting a telehandler bucket. Read More
March 15th 2022. A manufacturing company has been fined after an employee was found fatally injured under the forks of a side-loader lift truck. Read More
March 11th 2022. A farmer who accidentally crushed his 'loving, caring, kind' four-year-old nephew to death after he fell from a telehandler while illegally riding outside its cab has avoided prison. Read More
March 9th 2022. A retired college lecturer, who was riding his scooter, was killed when a telehandler pulled out onto the road. Read More
March 3rd 2022. A motor vehicle scrap company and a director have been fined after a worker suffered crush injuries in an incident involving a forklift truck. Read More
March 1st 2022. A building supplies firm has admitted breaching health and safety standards over the death of an employee who was crushed by a forklift truck. Read More
February 19th 2022. Two Northern Ireland poultry companies have been fined following an accident in which an employee sustained life-changing injuries when he was crushed by a forklift truck. Read More
February 3rd 2022. An employee was fatally injured when he was struck and crushed by a mobile forklift truck whilst he was walking across an open yard at his workplace. Read More
January 10th 2022. A cardboard manufacturer has been sentenced after a visiting lorry driver suffered life changing injuries when he was struck by a forklift truck. Read More
Disclaimer: The legislative information contained on this web site is my interpretation of the law based on many years in the health and safety business. A definitive interpretation can only be given by the courts. I will therefore not be held responsible for any accident/incident/prosecution arising as a consequence of anyone using any information obtained from this web site.