Whilst looking for Forklifts in and around northumberland you should be aware that a bakery was fined £25,000 plus costs of £30,000 following an accident in which an employee was killed and another severely injured when they used a forklift to raise a 2 tonne dough mixing machine in order to access a broken drive belt.

If you are looking for Forklifts in and around northumberland you may find it useful to know that safety can be improved by having a wheel indicator feature which shows the position of the wheels.

If you are investigating Forklifts in and around northumberland remember that a cushion tyre is not actually padded. It is a solid rubber tyre that has no inner tube. They are really only suitable for warehouse type machines as they can only be used on hard surfaces like concrete or tarmac.

If you are investigating Forklifts in and around northumberland it may be important to know that a company was fined £20,000 plus over £11,000 in costs after one of its workers was killed in a forklift truck incident. The company was prosecuted under the Health & Safety at Work Act for failing to use trained staff to drive its forklift trucks and which put the safety of all its work force at risk.

If you are investigating Forklifts in and around northumberland you should be aware that a newspaper distribution company was fined £125,000 when a van driver suffered severe head injuries after being hit in the head by a reversing forklift. The forklift driver had reversed without looking.