HGV driver killed by overloaded forklift

摘要

KITCHEN MANUFACTURER and supplier Howdens Joinery has been fined £1.2m after a visiting HGV driver was crushed while delivering into one of its sites in 2014. Agency driver Richard Bowen was crushed to death by a forklift truck that overturned while lifting kitchen worktops from a trailer at the firm's Workington, Cumbria site on 10 November 2014. An investigation by the HSE found that the forklift truck had been overloaded. Visiting HGV drivers were not kept at a safe distance from loading and unloading operations, which put them at risk.