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Middlesbrough · Teesside Crown Court
A worker and a colleague were devanning a shipping container in the company's yard, standing up metal frames each weighing approximately 120kg. As the sixth frame was lifted, the fifth frame fell back, followed by the remaining frames, trapping the worker by the neck between the container wall and the fallen frames.
Injuries: Fatal - cardiac arrest; died in hospital three days later.
Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
“This was a tragic and preventable incident, that cost a young man his life.”
Plan and supervise the devanning of shipping containers so that stacked or standing loads cannot fall back onto workers.
The machines, packs and quizzes that fit this kind of site.