12 Aug 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Birmingham, UK -- Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK Ltd, of Wingfoot Way, Birmingham has been fined of £13,500 with costs of £2,888.04 for health and safety breaches and ordered to pay compensation of £4,000 to an injured worker.
The company pleaded guilty on Tuesday 5th August 2008, to failing to take reasonable care for the health and safety of employees under Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. . The court also ordered the company to pay compensation of £4,000 to the injured worker. HSE prosecuted the company following an investigation.
On 15 June 2007 a casing operator was inspecting tyre casings when a forklift truck loaded with a four-high stack of heavy steel stillages (pallets) passed by. The stillages were not secured to each other or to the truck, and toppled onto the worker, causing two fractures to one of his ribs.
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