Warehouse worker foot crushed after Royal Mail PPE failure
The Royal Mail Group has been fined £50,000 after a worker’s foot was run over by a reach truck in a bundling warehouse.
The injured worked was not wearing safety boots with steel toe caps when the incident happened.
Medway Magistrates Court heard how an incident happened at the centre in Rochester where a worker stepped out into an aisle and another worker, who was driving a reach truck, ran over his foot causing broken bones and bruising.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident which occurred on 7 March 2014 found that workplace transport was not organised to ensure pedestrians and vehicles can circulate safely as they both operated in the same areas without segregation.
Better organisation of the workplace transport within the warehouse would have prevented this incident from happening.
Royal Mail was fined £50,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,406.
For further information on workplace transport safety visit:http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg199.pdf
