Untrained worker crushed during lifting op

摘要

A delivery driver's legs were crushed during a "badly-planned" lifting operation at a waste-management facility in London. The incident took place on 19 January 2008 at McCrath Bros (Waste Control) Ltd's site at Debden Wharf, Barking. A driver employed by the company was unloading 9m-high steel frames from an articulated lorry with the help of two colleagues. He climbed on the back of the vehicle and attached chains, which were hanging from the jib of a crane, on to the frames.