Following an investigation by the United Kingdom’s Health and Safety Executive, the plastics recycling company Arrow Recycling Ltd., located in Smethwick, U.K., has been fined after a worker was crushed under a bale of old corrugated containers.
The victim, Parvez Ahemd, suffered a cracked skull and a brain hemorrhage and was placed in a coma for 10 days.
The investigation found that Arrow Recycling failed to establish a safe way to stack bales, which resulted in unstable and heavy bales that eventually fell, causing the injuries.
The company pled guilty to breaching Regulation 10(4) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and was fined £160,000 (US$ 201,000) and ordered to pay costs of £2,917.
The HSE is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. It aims to reduce work-related death, injury and ill health. It does so through research, information and advice, promoting training; new or revised regulations and codes of practice, and working with local authority partners by inspection, investigation and enforcement.
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