Haulier fined

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.05.2006

Reading Magistrates have fined national haulage company QTR Transport and its managing director for assorted breaches of health and safety law at a distribution depot.

The offences included the absence of any risk assessment for unloading dangerous stock, failing to ensure employees wore hard hats, locating an employee rest area underneath a racking bay and failing to report an accident in which an employee's foot was crushed by a forklift truck that was being used incorrectly.

The prosecution was brought by Reading Borough Council's environmental health team and on 13 April the company was fined £8,000 and its managing director Paul White another £8,000.