If you are investigating hire reach fork truck in and around Shropshire it may be important to know that a company was fined £20,000 plus over £11,000 in costs after one of its workers was killed in a forklift truck incident. The company was prosecuted under the Health & Safety at Work Act for failing to use trained staff to drive its forklift trucks and which put the safety of all its work force at risk.

While searching for hire reach fork truck in and around Shropshire you may need to be aware that forklifts can operate in explosive atmospheres as long as they have been appropriately modified and then are carefully maintained by a properly trained engineer.

Whilst looking for hire reach fork truck in and around Shropshire you may be interested to know that a manufacturing company was fined £30,000 when a young employee was pinned against a wall and killed instantly. In this case a forklift truck was unloading a lorry in a narrow road when an oncoming vehicle forced it to reverse quickly to get out of its way. The forklift truck driver did not see the other employee who was leaving the building behind him and he reversed straight into him.