Engineering firm fined after forklift incident
22nd January 2018
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An engineering company has been fined after a worker was struck by a forklift. The court heard the employee was working as a ‘banksman’ to
An engineering company has been fined after a worker was struck by a forklift. The court heard the employee was working as a ‘banksman’ to
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