Excavator driver fined for pedestrian's death

摘要

THE HSE has successfully prosecuted an excavator driver over the death of an 81-year-old pedestrian who was killed by a 100kg excavator bucket falling over a site fence. In February 2007, Colin Clifford was using an excavator to pick out a strip of Tarmac in a fenced-off area outside a house in Maida Vale, west London. As he turned the vehicle, he raised the excavator's clam-shell bucket - which contained three other buckets weighing between 100kg and 170kg - over the site fence so that it was suspended above the unprotected public pavement beyond.