THE HEALTH and Safety Executive (HSE) is considering pressing charges against a plant-hire firm whose employee was killed when a mobile gantry carrying a 630-kilogramme lorry engine fell onto him, HSE inspectors gave evidence at an inquest in Loughbor-ough last month that the gantry was being operated by an untrained worker and was not designed to be moved while loaded. Alan Garner worked as a mechanic for Leicester-based plant-hire company Go Plant. On 1 September last year he was moving the A-framed gantry laden with the engine slowly across the workshop floor with the help of a junior colleague. When he moved away to answer a call on his mobile phone, leaving the gantry briefly in the charge of his co-worker, one of its legs slid into an inspection pit causing the assembly to fall on Garner. He was airlifted to hospital in Nottingham but later died.
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