CASE STUDIES Case study one A demolition firm was ordered
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to pay £15,000 in fines and compensation after a truck driver suffered serious head injuries falling almost 7m from the first floor of a building. The driver was collecting bricks when he fell. There were no protective barriers in place and the bricks had been stored on the first floor despite a risk assessment recommending that they were stored on the ground floor.
Case study two An operative fell from a loading ramp while being given instruction by a colleague on the use of a palm computer and how to download data from an L8130 excavator.
He was standing on the ramp alongside the machine and it appears that he stepped backwards and fell to the ground. He was escorted to the canteen and then to hospital where a subsequent medical examination confirmed that he had suffered a fractured hip.
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