£50,000 fine over head injury
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RUNCORN-based boat manufacturer Pyranha Mouldings has been fined £50,000 after an employee's head was crushed against the top of a lorry container. In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Chester Crown Court was told that the 49-year-old man from Northwich had been putting kay
aks into the container at the company's factory on the Whitehouse Industrial Estate in March 2011.
As he tried to climb from the container into a cage to be lifted down to the ground by a forklift truck, the forks were raised and he was crushed against the top of the container.
The accident left him with a tom ear, three chipped teeth and nerve pain. He needed several stitches.
The court was told the company had used this method of loading kayaks for several years, despite employees requesting that a ramp be built to make it easier to load the boats into containers.
Pyranha, which holds an 0-licence for three vehicles, was also ordered to pay £6,562 in costs after pleading guilty to a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.