Digger arm crushed untrained operator's head

摘要

A WELSH construction firm has been ordered to pay almost 110,000 pounds in fines and costs for allowing an unqualified and unauthorised employee to operate a mini excavator at a housing development site in Gloucester. The HSE prosecuted Bridgend-based Macob Administration after 23-year-old ground worker Lance Taylor suffered fatal head injuries in February 2005 when he accidentally nudged a joystick as he leaned out of the digger cab's opened windscreen to throw a colleague a set of keys to a nearby dumper truck. The stick operated the vehicle's digging arm, which then raised and swung backwards, crushing his head between the cab and the arm.