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Company fined after worker injured by overturned truck

A groundworks company has been fined after a worker sustained serious injuries when a dumper truck overturned. The worker had been reversing the one-tonne truck when it entered an unprotected excavation and overturned.

HSE’s investigation found:

the company had instructed workers not to wear seat belts while operating one-tonne dumper trucks
open excavations on the site were not adequately protected to prevent vehicles from entering them

Read more about the incident in our press release: Company fined after worker injured by overturned truck.

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