A major UK joinery company has been fined £1.2m after a worker was crushed to death at a site depot.
Carlisle Crown Court heard how Richard Brown, an agency driver, was delivering kitchen worktops to a Howdens Joinery site in Workington when he was crushed as a forklift truck (FLT) overturned while lifting kitchen worktops from the trailer of the HGV.
An investigation into the incident, which occurred on 10 November 2014, found the FLT had been overloaded and that visiting delivery drivers were not kept at a safe distance from the loading and unloading operations.
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