Whilst you are looking for linde fork trucks in and around scotland you might like to be aware that a company was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay over £11,000 in costs after one of its workers died in a lift truck accident. The company was prosecuted under the Health & Safety at Work Act for failure to use trained staff to drive its lift trucks and protect the safety of its employees.

While you are searching for linde fork trucks in and around scotland it might be worth considering that lift trucks are industrial machines that are built to have a long life expectancy and most should last at least 20,000 hours of use.

Whilst you are looking for linde fork trucks in and around scotland you might like to be aware that a business was fined over £50,000 when a 60 year old employee was crushed and later died as a result of his injuries. It was found that the lift truck had been going round a corner when its driver performed an emergency stop in order to avoid hitting a member of staff. However the sudden breaking cause a steel coil situated on the forks to fall off pinning the man to the ground. The court found that no risk assessments had been carried out and that there was no safe system to safely separate pedestrians from vehicles on the site.