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Oven fell on worker because of insufficient risk assessment

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10 Dec 2008 9:50AM

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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