Whilst you are looking for cat counterbalanced forklifts in and around wales 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.

Whilst you are looking for cat counterbalanced forklifts in and around wales you might like to be aware that a newspaper company settled a claim for £140,000 accepting 85% liability for an accident where an employee was knocked off a ladder by an automated guided electric lift truck. The employee broke his wrist and under advice from his consultant had to retire from his printing job.

Whilst you are looking for cat counterbalanced forklifts in and around wales you might like to be aware that a lift truck driver working at a sawmill was fined £1,750 after an incident in which he was driving a lift truck with a stack of 12 modular sheds. The sheds obscured the drivers vision and as a result he hit a fellow employee with the load causing a fractured pelvis, cuts and bruises. It is important that individuals are aware that they, as well as their employer, have duties under the law to take reasonable care of the health and safety of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work. In this case the employer had employed an in-house lift truck trainer and the driver had received regular refresher training and re-testing and as a result it was the employee not the employer that was fined for this incident.