A waste company have been fined after a worker was ran over by a shovel loader in November 2015. The incident led to the worker being hospitalised for six months and both legs being amputated from the mid thigh.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company did not have controls in place to protect workers from the high volume of vehicles and traffic on site. Although they had previously identified the risk and how they could prevent workers being hit by vehicles they did not implement those measures.
Sundorne Products (Llanidloes) Limited of Powys pleaded guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and were fined £180,000 and ordered to pay costs of over £7,600.
HSE inspector Mhairi Duffy said: "It is extremely important to identify how to protect your workers but you must back this up with action. This worker’s and his families lives have been changed forever because Sundorne Products Ltd failed to take action and protect their workers from being run over by vehicles on the site. All businesses that have high volumes of vehicles on their site can learn from this case."
