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 Council prosecuted after
dumper truck overturned
Bridgend County Borough Council has been fined for an incident
that saw a driver injured after his dumper truck overturned.
Council employee Mark Morgan was driving the one tonne vehicle
through woodland near Moel Gilau Lane, Bettws on 25 September 2008
when the truck began to slide.It then toppled over - trapping the driver's left leg between the
vehicle and a tree.
He needed to be airlifted to hospital for an
operation on his broken leg.A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation showed the
vehicle was not suitable for the gradient where it was being used.
The council also failed to carry out a formal, written risk
assessment of the work or the selection of plant being used.
The investigation also found there was no evidence that staff
were adequately trained in the use of small items of plant equipment
such as the dumper truck in this incident.
The Council pleaded guilty to a breach of Section 2(1) of the
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 at Bridgend Magistrates'
Court on Monday (24 May).
They were fined £10,000 and ordered to pay
costs of £5,623.60.After the hearing HSE Inspector Ceri Beynon said: "Risks
associated with improper use should never be underestimated and this
incident could easily have been prevented."Employers have a duty of care to ensure that drivers are
suitably trained, risks are properly assessed, and that adequate
safety measures are in place."Those involved in the planning and execution of work involving
the use of plant or equipment need to ensure they are fully aware of
the safety limitations of use."
More information on risk management can be found on HSE's website
at
http://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/index.htm[1].
Date: 24 May 2010 Release No: 792/W10
http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/coi-w-792w10.htm
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October 17,
2002 19:55
A Norfolk workman remains in a "critical" condition in hospital after
being crushed in a collapsed trench. The accident happened at lunchtime
on Wednesday as a team of workers from Peterborough-based Barhill
Construction laid pipes for a first-time sewerage scheme on behalf of
Anglian Water at Gorefield, near Wisbech. Steven Wagg, 36, of Old
Hunstanton Road, Old Hunstanton, was working in the trench when it
appears to have collapsed under the weight of a dumper truck parked
nearby. Firefighters were called to the site in Back Lane but Mr Wagg
had been pulled clear of the hole by colleagues by the time they
arrived. He was taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital,
King's Lynn with multiple broken ribs and breathing difficulties and
remained in intensive care last night. The Health and Safety Executive
has launched an investigation into the accident
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UPDATE Firm fined £8,000 over near escape
by ALISON BELLAMY
A CONSTRUCTION company was fined £8,000 after a dumper truck overturned
on a building site in Leeds. A man driving the truck escaped uninjured.
Morrison Construction admitted putting labourer Anthony Mongey at risk
during work at Headingley Water Treatment Work on May 16 last year. The
city magistrates were told that Mr Mongey, 59, was working as a
sub-contractor for the national company, which was building a concrete
water tank at Yorkshire Water's site at Otley Road. The work was being
carried out in partnership with Earth-Tech Engineering. Mr Mongey drove
the eight-tonne truck on a one- in-four gradient, a manoeuvre that was
against safety advice. It overturned. He was taken to the accident and
emergency department at Leeds General Infirmary but was uninjured and
returned to work four hours later. Sarah Hague, HM inspector for Health
and Safety, said: "There was certainly potential for a fatal accident
here. Dumpers on gradient feature prominently on accidents of this sort.
"The company has co-operated fully with the HSE investigation." Paul
Burnley, for Morrison Construction, which has 100 sites nationally and
employs 1,900 people plus 200 sub-contractors, said: "Mr Mongey, who has
40 years' experience in the construction industry, was unscratched.
Although a sub-contractor, he had been on a full induction course.
"Despite safety training , procedures were not followed. "The company
was obviously shocked at what happened. An internal investigation was
held and this incident is now used in training sessions." The firm was
also ordered to pay £1,409 costs.
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Dumper
truck accident at air base
The civilian driver of a dumper truck involved in an accident recently at RAF
KInloss, Moray, is reported to be in a stable condition in hospital after he
sustained head injuries in what, according to one account, was a fall from his
vehicle. He is said to be an employee of contracting organisation Turner's.
http://www.safetynews.co.uk/news.htm
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Dumper mows down 4 in sleep
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
MUMBAI, Jan 18: In a mishap that brought back the memories of accidents
involving celebrity sons Puru Rajkumar over two years back in the city,
and more recently Sanjeev Nanda in Delhi, a speeding dumper ran over
sleeping pavement dwellers killing four and injuring six, including three
children, at Vile Parle early this morning.
The mishap happened at around 2.50 am at Hanuman Road when the dumper
driver lost control over the vehicle and ran over some rag-pickers
sleeping on the footpath.
The speeding dumper crushed the skulls of two women, a teenage girl and
a man and injured three children, two men and a woman.
The injured have admitted to the Cooper Hospital, where their condition
is reported to be critical. The dumper driver, who had escaped after the
accident, gave himself up at the Vile-Parle police station late in the
evening.
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KARACHI: Three men die in
accidents
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, June 9: Three persons died in separate road accident in
different parts of the city on Tuesday.
A young man, Rizwan, 22, died and three others were injured when a
speeding bus of route 4J (JO-0271) rammed into a roadside cabin in New
Karachi. An enraged mob later set the bus on fire.
The errant driver, who had escaped from the scene soon after the
accident, was arrested at the Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre,
where he had gone for treatment, police said.
Two of the three persons, injured in the accident, were identified as
Rashid, 25, and Abdul Latif, 40, while the other person could not be
identified immediately. They were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed
Hospital.In Lyari, a 60-year-old unidentified man was knocked down by
a heavy vehicle knocked.
Police said that the man was hit by a dumper belonging to the city
government. The victim's body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for
postmortem, they added. A man, Zaheer Ahmed, 18, was run over by a
speeding vehicle in Gadap.
Police said Zaheer Ahmed was a motor mechanic at a workshop in Khatoor
Morr. They said that the errant driver was apprehended on the spot,
but was later released due to his influential personality.The victim's
body was shifted to the JPMC for postmortem examination, police added.
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IT all happens on the canals.
This is an extract from a rather
humorous article that is worth visiting in its own right at
http://www.mike-stevens.co.ukAnother area that I feel needs looking at is site safety. It's
all very well co-operating with BW, the Waterways Trust, the
Health & Safety Executive or whoever to run training in safe
working practices - and I know canal volunteers need to keep up
with all the latest safety legislation. But let's face it: it
doesn't really fit with the 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' image
that WRGies revel in.
You only have to listen to the same bunch of WRG volunteers in
the pub for a few more minutes, and they'll be reminiscing about
that time in 1974 when they used too much dynamite to knock down a
lock-side and inadvertently demolished the lock-cottage too, or
the time the local organiser arrived in the pub on a dumper -
through the wall!
Of course none of them actually want to go back to having
accidents in unsafe vehicles - but maybe they'd like just a little
bit to go back to appearing to be the sort of people who might
have conceivably get involved in the odd scrape or two. But it's
hard to be a hell-raiser in a hi-vis vest and safety helmet,
sitting strapped-in on a dumper with a roll-cage fitted, with a
CITB training certificate in your pocket.
So I have a few suggestions that - while keeping working
practices safe - will help to keep the 'rebel without a hard-hat'
image going. Starting with a 'hard-wig': what looks like a typical
1970s-relic long-haired navvy is actually wearing full head
protection underneath his shaggy mane. And fitting all vehicles
with red seat-belts that don't show up against a WRG T-shirt.
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