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Firm 'puts house in order' and sacks two
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A CRANE HIRE company that admitted its record keeping was -shameful" has escaped with a warning after a Traffic Commissioner accepted it had "put its house in order".
MSD Darlington had been called before NorthEastern TC Tom Macartney at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. The firm holds a restricted licence for four vehicles and two trailers.
Vehicle examiner Geoffrey Flatters said he had issued a delayed prohibition for missing spray suppression equipment during a maintenance investigation in January. The inspection records showed that the defect had been noted at the two previous inspections. There were gaps in the inspection records and the driver defect-reporting system did not seem to be effective.
Gary Stephens, the director responsible for health and safety. said the firm operated 18 cranes, ranging in lifting capacity between 15 and 200 tonnes; the vehicles and trailers were used to carry ancillary equipment for the cranes.
He accepted that it was shameful that record keeping had been neglected — the person responsible and the foreman fitter had been sacked.
The firm needed to retain its own vehicles and trailers. Stephens added, as they would struggle to get outside transport. He had now taken personal control of supervising the transport.
The TC warned that if there was the same sort of chaos in the future he would be obliged to take more serious action.