A haulage company has been fined £85,000 after a fork lift truck driver was killed as he loaded a lorry. Ian Dawson, 60, of Rochdale, was putting pallets onto the HGV at Chorlton Express Transport Limited in Oldham.
“He loved his food and months after his death I still found myself shopping for him. Thinking oh that’s one of Ian’s favourites I will buy that. Even though I knew he was not here anymore. His daughter Caitlin, who was just 19 when her dad died, said it had ‘turned her life upside down’.“I can still remember getting the phone call that my dad had passed like it was yesterday. At just 19 years old when it happened, and it being the first time losing someone, it felt like my life had turned upside down, especially in the brutal terms it happened.
After the hearing HSE inspector Jane Carroll said: “The failures of this company has left a family without the man they loved. The importance of wearing seatbelts cannot be stressed enough.