Oven fell on worker because of insufficient risk assessment

The HSE is urging manufacturing companies to conduct suitable risk assessments and adopt safe working practices when moving heavy products and equipment. This reminder follows the prosecution of a company after a worker was seriously injured when a commercial oven fell on him.

On 18 January 2008, a 22-year-old employee of Caltherm (UK) Ltd was helping to move an industrial steam-heated 'DMT' liquid oven weighing 800kg when the oven fell from the two pallet trucks that were being used to mov... (245 more words)

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