Health and safety breaches led to refuse-truck death
September 8, 2008
A local authority is being bound for sentencing after health and safety breaches led to a man's death.
Brian Kindred was killed when a refuse truck reversed onto him in 2006.
North Tyneside council is pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, section 3 of which creates an obligation to protect members of the general public.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) states the local authority failed to follow basic procedure.
One of the organisation's inspectors Stephen Britton claims the council offered only "cursory" training which did not cover guiding vehicles and had not put a system of supervision in place.
He says: "Had the council followed the simple and straightforward control measures… such as training their operators to warn the driver about pedestrians walking close to the vehicle, Mr Kindred would not have died."
The accident took place in Allanville, near Camperdown.
In related news, a worker in the waste disposal sector was crushed to death by a fork-lift truck last month, the Plymouth Evening Herald reported.
The city council in charge of the waste management operation is being taken to court by the HSE.
Brian Kindred was killed when a refuse truck reversed onto him in 2006.
North Tyneside council is pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, section 3 of which creates an obligation to protect members of the general public.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) states the local authority failed to follow basic procedure.
One of the organisation's inspectors Stephen Britton claims the council offered only "cursory" training which did not cover guiding vehicles and had not put a system of supervision in place.
He says: "Had the council followed the simple and straightforward control measures… such as training their operators to warn the driver about pedestrians walking close to the vehicle, Mr Kindred would not have died."
The accident took place in Allanville, near Camperdown.
In related news, a worker in the waste disposal sector was crushed to death by a fork-lift truck last month, the Plymouth Evening Herald reported.
The city council in charge of the waste management operation is being taken to court by the HSE.
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