Employee dies after being struck by shovel of reversing JCB

摘要

A waste recycling firm has been fined £500,000 afteT an employee was fatally injured when he was struck by the loading shovel of a reversing JCB. Newcastle upon Tyne Crown Court heard that, on 15 June 2015, a wheeled front-loading shovel was being operated in the main waste processing shed at Sanders Plant and Waste Management Ltd's waste recycling facility. The vehicle, driven by another employee, was loading waste into both a trommel (a large waste separation and sifting machine) and a parked haulage vehicle. During the course of this operation the vehicle struck site operative George Richardson. Mr Richardson was fatally injured and died at the scene from his injuries.