Farm fined over £11,000 after worker crushes foot
28 May 2021 |
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) had investigated the on-farm incident
A farm in East Yorkshire has been ordered to pay out over £11,000 after a 17-year-old worker suffered crush injuries to hit foot.
T Cook & Son (Farmers) Ltd, based in Withernsea, has been sentenced for safety breaches after the young worker suffered the serious injury.
Bridlington Magistrates’ Court heard that on 20 December 2017 a concrete panel was dropped during a lifting operation involving a telehandler vehicle on a farm in Owstwick.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the panel was being installed to repair a pig shed.
Teen farm worker s foot crushed by falling tonne of concrete
The farm involved has had to fork out £11,000 for breaching safety regulations
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A 17-year-old farm worker s foot was crushed after a tonne of concrete fell on him.
The teenager was helping repair a pig shed at a farm in Owstwick, Holderness, when a telehandler - a type of forklift truck - moving a concrete panel fell off and struck the worker.