Firms fined £57,000 for electrician’s 35ft lift fall
Posted: Thursday, May 16th, 2024
Two companies have been fined after an electrician fell 35ft (10m) head-first when a crane knocked him out of his lift cage, according to the BBC. The worker was repairing light fittings at Expert Tooling and Automation Ltd in Coventry when he was knocked out of his scissor lift cage by a crane being operated by another worker nearby. The 52-year-old from Sheffield fell onto the factory floor, leaving him with a fractured skull and many other injuries. His employer, Optilight Electrical Services Ltd, and Expert Tooling and Automation admitted breaches of health and safety laws and were fined £7,000 and £50,000, respectively. The worker operating the overhead crane on 21 September 2022 did not see the electrician in the lift. The collision caused it to twist and hit nearby racks before landing on the factory floor, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), who prosecuted the firms, said. The HSE added that a second employee from Optilight Electrical Services narrowly avoided being crushed by the scissor lift by jumping out of the way before it landed on the floor. The electrician sustained a fractured skull, two brain bleeds, a broken collarbone, eight broken ribs, a broken elbow and wrist, as well as a punctured lung. He was later placed in an induced coma and underwent several operations.
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