KERAFI, trading as Rapid Refrigerated Transport, has been convicted and fined $24,000 following an August 2007 incident where a driver tripped over a forklift.
The company pleaded guilty to a breach of Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986.
SafeWork SA prosecuted after investigating the tip-over incident at the company’s Mawson Lakes premises in August 2007. The 56 year old delivery driver had tripped over the tines of a forklift which was about to exit the curtained doorway of a cold-room.
The driver sustained a head injury consistent with concussion, but has since deteriorated and is now unable to work.
According to SafeWork SA, both forklifts and pedestrians were required to use the common doorway, creating an unnecessary risk of collision.
Safework SA says people need to be separated from working machinery like forklifts via the use of a rigorously and consistently enforced traffic control system.
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