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HSE figures show the number of injuries suffered by people working in the category freight transport by road. They do not include injuries while driving, which are recorded separately In 2007-08, there were nearly 9,000 injuries affecting employees of haulage firms. These included 11 deaths, 1,625 major injuries and 7,284 injuries which required more than three days off work. The HSE also publishes case studies showing how people met their deaths. They were all mature, experienced people. A driver was killed after falling 2.8m from a tipper lorry while trying to tie on sheeting; another driver was crushed because he left the handbrake off and his lorry rolled back into a sloping loading bay; and a transport manager was crushed against the cab of another vehicle when a lorry reversed.
Other fatalities included a warehouse worker killed when directing a reversing lorry, a driver crushed by a fork lift, another driver crushed by a load of aluminium that collapsed while loading and a driver crushed after his vehicle ran away while he was coupling a trailer. The HSE is working with trade associations and trade unions to try and reduce these risks. in 2002 it set up the Road Distribution Action Group and reports on its work can be found at: www.hse.gov.ukthaulageirclag.htm