Haulier fined for fatal HGV incident

摘要

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned employers not to ignore basic safety precautions following the death of a lorry driver at a ready-mixed concrete depot in east London.rnJohn Peter Wootten, formerly trading as AEP Aggregates, was recently fined £4,000, plus costs of £750, after pleading guilty to breaching Sections 3(l)(a) and 10(l) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.rnThe prosecution followed a HSE investigation into an incident in which a driver in Mr Wootten's employment, Joseph Caruana, was fatally injured by a tipper trailer.rnOn 19 December 2001, Mr Caruana was unloading shingle at RMC Readymix Ltd's depot in Tower Hamlets. Having reversed his articulated lorry up a concrete ramp into the unloading bay, he engaged the tractor handbrake and activated the trailer's tipping mechanism.