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Firm is fined £4,000 after driver is injured
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A COMPANY has been fined £4.000 for a series of health and safety lapses that left a truck driver in hospital for nine weeks with serious injuries.
Driver Brian Thomson was hit in the face by a plastic chemical container after it fell from a forklift truck while being loaded.
The incident happened in April last year at a site belonging to Baker Petrolite in Dyce, near Aberdeen.
Thomson. who was working for Aberdeen haulier APR Craib, was standing beside his truck when the barrel hit him. It dislodged his hard hat and as he fell to the ground his head struck the concrete floor.
As a result he spent a week in intensive care and subsequently suffered memory loss and personality changes. He no longer has his LGV licence.
Last week Baker Petrolite admitted exposing Thomson to unnecessary risks. It had failed to ensure that containers were safely transported and loaded onto vehicles in its yard to prevent them falling.