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Transport company in court over driver’s death
25 August 2015
A Norfolk based road transport company has been sentenced for safety failings after a driver suffered life-changing injuries and later died following an incident in Broxbourne, Herts.
Keith Brookes, 61 (he was 59 at the time of the accident), from Milton Keynes, fell from a unsecured ladder during an operation to unload items from a lorry at the Hertfordshire Golf and Country Club on White Stubbs Lane on 23 November 2012.
The incident was investigated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which prosecuted Mr Brookes’ employer, David Watson Transport, after finding the company had failed to properly safeguard workers from falls.
David Watson Transport of Mundford Road, Weeting, Norfolk, was fined a total of £150,000 and ordered to pay costs of £88,030.69 after being found guilty to three counts of the Work at Height Regulations 2005.
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