A woman was forced to have her leg amputated after being involved in a horror workplace accident. Sharon Bramwell spent three months in hospital after being struck by a mobile elevating work platform due to health and safety failings.
The court heard how Sharon had been supervising four other members of staff as they completed high-level cleaning tasks during the shift. She had been acting as 'a banksman' for an employee who was controlling an MEWP. She said: "I have a huge scar on my stomach from where the surgeons took a piece of it to use as a flap over my stump. My left leg above my stump is really badly scarred and damaged. It was trapped under the cherry picker.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive revealed a series of failings by Baker & Baker Products UK Limited. The company failed to have in place a suitable and sufficient safe system of work when escorting MEWPs from a parked position to point of use. The company was fined £400,000 and was ordered to pay costs of £7,266 costs. This HSE prosecution was brought by HSE enforcement lawyers Karen Park and Matt Reynolds and paralegal officer Louisa Shaw.
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