A Nottinghamshire transport company has been fined £255,000 after a worker fell from a lorry and fractured his skull. The man, who was working as a delivery driver for Huthwaite-based B Taylor & Sons Transport Limited, had been delivering glass to a customer when the incident occurred in Hinckley, Leicestershire on December 4, 2020.
As there was no forklift truck, the man was passing panes of glass from a stillage in the lorry to another worker on the ground. The man then fell from the lorry, fracturing his skull, left hand, nose and right eye socket.
He also sustained two bleeds on the brain, a 12 centimetre gash on his forehead and dislocated his right elbow. The worker spent five days in hospital following the incident and has to make significant adjustments to his day to day life.
