Stone Yard Failed To Control Risks During Unloading Op

摘要

A stone-yard worker was crushed to death after a pile of granite slabs fell on him inside a shipping container. Jerzy Tomasz Pejda was working as a stone labourer for Stoneville UK Ltd at the firm's yard in Hounslow, London, when the accident took place on 2 November 2005. Mr Pejda and a colleague were attempting to unload a delivery of granite slabs from a shipping container, which was resting on a trailer. Both men were removing the slabs from wooden crates so they could be transported into the yard. They used an angle grinder to break the seal of the crates, and had successfully unloaded the contents from three of them when they noticed that some of the remaining slabs had been shattered. A number of undamaged slabs was removed and left to stand, while the men removed the debris from the broken slabs.