If you are searching for goods and services in and around Ashford you might like to be aware that an 18 year old worker had to have his leg amputated after it was crushed when the lift truck he was driving overturned in a pothole. It was later found that he was not trained or qualified to drive the lift truck.
While you are trying to find goods and services in and around Ashford it may help to know that damage to the frame uprights is usually caused by heavily loaded forklift impact. Good training of operational staff can reduce both the frequency and severity of such incidents.
While you are investigating goods and services in and around Ashford it may be helpful to know that general safety in the use of pallet racking will be improved if the training emphasises that side shifting of loads against the rack frame or against other loads should be avoided.
Whilst you are looking for goods and services in and around Ashford you might like to be aware that a DIY store was fined over £500,000 and ordered to pay costs of £250,000 following an incident in which a female customer was killed as a result of a lift truck reversing into her. It was found that the lift truck driver had been working without a look-out and as a result had failed to see her.
Whilst you are looking for goods and services in and around Ashford you might like to be aware that an employee was injured when the lift truck he was operating fell down a gap between a refrigerated trailer and a loading platform. This was one of two lift truck incidents that led to the business being fined £25,000 and ordered to pay over £8,000 in costs.
While looking into goods and services in and around Ashford you might like to be aware that a newspaper distribution company was fined £125,000 after a van driver suffered severe head injuries when he was hit in the head by a reversing lift truck with a raised load. It was found that the lift truck driver had reversed without looking.