A Coventry scrapyard was fined £200,000 last month after one of it’s workers was killed by a reversing skip lorry.
58 year old Ronald Barnacle, who worked as a burner at the Longford company ‘Easco (Midlands) Limited’, was struck by the truck in June 2005.
Pleading guilty to breaching health and safety regulations at Coventry Crown Court, the company was fined £200,000 as well as paying £55,000 costs.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued a warning to scrapyards to prevent further such incidents. Jenny Skeldon, HSE inspector, said: "Had basic health and safety precautions been observed it is most unlikely that such a fatality would have occurred.
Scrapyard owners need to ensure that they make a suitable and sufficient risk assessment of the movement of vehicles and pedestrians on site and identify and implement appropriate control measures to prevent people being struck by moving vehicles."
