A sweet manufacturer has been fined £5,000 after an employee climbed on a forklift truck to help keep its balance while unloading equipment from a lorry and fell, breaking his arm, writes Chris Tindall.
According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) the worker at Lees of Scotland was asked to get on the forklift truck to try to help it stay upright because it couldn’t lift the load.
The employee fell from the vehicle in the yard of the company’s Coatbridge site, resulting in a broken arm, cuts to his head and muscle damage to his back.
He was off work for more than four weeks, before returning on light duties.
