'Across the board' failings cost firm [pounds sterling]113k: the death of a forklift truck driver at a Melton Mowbray firm's yard would have been prevented had a risk assessment been carried out before building work started on the site.(In Court)(Elsome Engineering)

Publication: The Safety & Health Practitioner

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Leicester Crown Court, sitting on 19 March, heard that Kenneth Chalk, employed by Melton Mowbray-based Elsome Engineering, was crushed to death by his own truck as he was moving steel girders from the firm's yard to its workshop in February 2003.

The company and its director, Timothy Elsome, had both pleaded guilty at a magistrates' hearing in February to the same three charges:

* s2(1) of the HSWA 1974--failure to ensure the safety of employees by not making them...

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