£20K fine shows importance of workplace traffic management

P&O Ferrymasters has been fined £20,000 after a forklift truck driver was crushed to death by a reversing lorry, reports the Belfast Telegraph.

The lorry entered the transport yard, but found that it needed to reverse because its path was blocked by another lorry. Eneas McKay was operating a forklift truck behind the lorry, but the court heard that the lorry driver would not have been able to see the truck. The lorry was not fitted with an audible alarm to bring attention to its reversing.
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