If you are looking for caterpillar lift trucks in and around Middlesbrough TS5 you might like to note that a used lift truck might have had numerous previous owners and therefore the likelihood of experiencing problems and breakdowns is reasonably high. Therefore when purchasing either a new or used lift truck consider who will be attending to its ongoing service and maintenance.

Whilst you are looking for caterpillar lift trucks in and around Middlesbrough TS5 you might like to be aware that a bakery was fined £25,000 and ordered to pay costs of £30,000 following an incident in which one employee was killed and another severely injured whilst using a lift truck to raise a 2 tonne dough mixing machine in order to gain access to the drive belt underneath, which had failed.

Whilst you are looking for caterpillar lift trucks in and around Middlesbrough TS5 you might like to be aware that a lift truck driver working at a sawmill was fined £1,750 after an incident in which he was driving a lift truck with a stack of 12 modular sheds. The sheds obscured the drivers vision and as a result he hit a fellow employee with the load causing a fractured pelvis, cuts and bruises. It is important that individuals are aware that they, as well as their employer, have duties under the law to take reasonable care of the health and safety of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work. In this case the employer had employed an in-house lift truck trainer and the driver had received regular refresher training and re-testing and as a result it was the employee not the employer that was fined for this incident.

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