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Pall-Ex awaits sentence
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PALLET SPECIALIST Pall-Ex has admitted breaching health and safety laws following an accident in which a forklift truck driver died when his vehicle toppled over while unloading a trailer.
The firm will be sentenced at a crown court at the end of June following the accident in which 37year-old Moray Inglis suffered fatal head injuries.
Nottingham magistrates' court heard that Inglis died at the lirm's former premises in Gotham in January 2003.
Frances Bailey, prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive, said Inglis was unloading a truck queuing outside the company's warehouse. It shunted forwards half a vehicle's length as the queue moved and caused the forklift to topple over, trapping him. He was taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham where he died.
A report in a local paper quoted the company's marketing manager, Chris Martin, as saying: "the accident prompted PallEx to invest £12m in new premises". But this has angered some in the industry, who reckon Pall-Ex is being disingenuous.
-The new hub was almost finished when Moray was killed," says one industry source. "The accident happened in January and Pall-Ex was in the hub in March.You don't build a new hub in two months!"
A Pall-Ex spokesman declined to comment on the article, but expressed sympathy for the Inglis family and points out "no serious incidents have occurred since that unfortunate accident three years ago. The company remains committed to maintaining the highest standards of health and safety." christopher.tindall@rbieo.uk