The need to carry out regular OHSAS 18001 training has been highlighted by the prosecution of a building company where a worker suffered serious injuries after being hit by a digger.

Bryan Christopher Kendra and Michael Anthony Kendra of L & S Kendra & Sons were fined £9,000 each and ordered to pay costs of £2,500.

The brothers, whose business is based on Meadow Bank, Melbourne, East Yorkshire, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

Bryan Kendra was driving the digger at the time of the accident, which happened in July last year on a construction site in Seaton Ross.

While reversing the vehicle, he hit and ran over bricklayer Andrew Tresize, who suffered serious leg injuries and a broken pelvis.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) noted that no one was appointed as a reversing assistant for the digger prior to the incident and that pedestrian and vehicle movements were not kept separate on the site.

Being hit by a moving vehicle is one of the biggest causes of fatal injuries in the workplace, along with falls from height and being struck by a falling object.

Posted by Andy Finch

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