£105K Fine after Fork Lift Road Accident

Moores Timber Merchants has been fined £105,000 under health and safety law, following an fatal incident in 1997 when a fork lift truck drove onto a public road and ran into a car, reports the BBC.

In August 1997, Mr Akhtar was driving down a street in his home city of Manchester when a forklift truck ran into his car. The raised forks of the truck punctured his windscreen and stabbed Mr Akhtar in the neck, killing him.

This was an important case because it has established the HSE's respons... (181 more words)

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