Worker died when bucket shifted

A man welding a tip bucket died when it moved, crushing him as he worked on it. The incident occurred in January last year at the Nutberry Works, Eastriggs, Annan, premises of Humax Horticulture Ltd of Godalming, Surrey.

The company was fined £23,300 over the death of the agency worker, an HSE official commented: “Workplace risks need to be managed by employers, irrespective of how wages are paid and who pays them.

Employers who take on agency staff to plug a temporary gap in their workforce should not provide any lesser standard of health and safety protection for these people than they would for their own employees.

Incidents can happen when inadequate information and instruction is provided to such workers. It may result in a failure to take the correct action to control risks relating to the work in hand, as shown by this tragic death.”

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