Truck Driver killed by delivery trolley

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An investigation is underway after a truck driver from South Yorkshire died while delivering Christmas food supplies.

The 65-year-old, who has not been named, is thought to have been crushed by a metal roller cage as he made a drop in West Yorkshire.

Police and Paramedics were called to a Supermarket in Hebden Bridge following reports a man had been trapped by the trolley, understood to be full of produce.

The man from Doncaster was making a delivery to the Oasis NISA store in Crown Street, Hebden Bridge when the incident happened at around 0900 on Saturday.

The rear doors of the white, articulated DAF truck remained open after the incident, while a line of metal trolley cages was visible on the pavement outside an adjoining shop.

A spokesman for DHL, who have the delivery contract with NISA said: “DHL can confirm one of its employees was involved in a fatal incident on the morning of Saturday, December 22, in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

“We offer our deepest sympathies to the bereaved family and are cooperating fully with the police, and Health and Safety Executive in their investigation.

“However, while this is underway, we are unable to comment further, other than to confirm that health and safety remains of the utmost importance to the company.”

The West Yorkshire Western District Coroner, Peter Straker, has been notified of the death and an inquest is expected to be opened shortly.

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Another one gone

[cheekymonkey]

Sad indeed.

I turned down a job on this contract and have told the agency I wont go back in there because the work is so damned difficult. The customers are either not there and there’s just a 16 year old girl who cant leave the till or the customer is there and he thinks its ok to stand there and watch while you pull yer puddin`s out with heavy pallets across busy pavements. Up hills. Between parked cars. Stuck in pot holes, or trying to get the cages or pallets off on a steep hill.

I told them its a two man job, for the sake of safety. Yes, they pay slightly over the rate, but get it done for considerably less than two wages.
Greed. Nothing less.

I see he had an electric truck in the back of his. I`ve never seen that on a shop delivery in my life. So fair play there I suppose.

R.I.P.

[wiretwister]

cheekymonkey:
Sad indeed.

I see he had an electric truck in the back of his. I`ve never seen that on a shop delivery in my life. So fair play there I suppose.

R.I.P.

Even with an electric pallet truck the tail lift would have been overloaded with EPT, pallet and operator on it. I would think the EPT will raise more questions than it answers. Did the driver have a delivery with a dock leveler? How is the EPT secured during transit?

[seagoon]

Wiretwister:

cheekymonkey:
Sad indeed.

I see he had an electric truck in the back of his. I`ve never seen that on a shop delivery in my life. So fair play there I suppose.

R.I.P.

Even with an electric pallet truck the tail lift would have been overloaded with EPT, pallet and operator on it. I would think the EPT will raise more questions than it answers. Did the driver have a delivery with a dock leveler? How is the EPT secured during transit?

In this case the EPT was irrelevant because he was unloading cages. The EPT was for pallets at another drop. The paper is jumping to conclusions about him being crushed. Yes he was found with a full cage on top of him but until they do the post-mortem it won’t be known whether he had a heart attack and pulled the cage over as he collapsed or whatever. There were no witnesses so no conclusions can be drawn until a full investigation has been done. Speculation on here will be just wind and ■■■■ I’m afraid.
I’m afraid I didn’t know the guy well because he was days and I do Agency nights but as you can imagine the atmosphere isn’t good there at the moment. Poor sod was due to retire in 6 months too.
My condolences to his family who must be in bits.

[wiretwister]

Seagoon:
In this case the EPT was irrelevant because he was unloading cages. The EPT was for pallets at another drop. The paper is jumping to conclusions about him being crushed. Yes he was found with a full cage on top of him but until they do the post-mortem it won’t be known whether he had a heart attack and pulled the cage over as he collapsed or whatever. There were no witnesses so no conclusions can be drawn until a full investigation has been done. Speculation on here will be just wind and ■■■■ I’m afraid.
I’m afraid I didn’t know the guy well because he was days and I do Agency nights but as you can imagine the atmosphere isn’t good there at the moment. Poor sod was due to retire in 6 months too.
My condolences to his family who must be in bits.

I know what your saying but when fatalities occur the investigation will, without exception, go wider than the immediate incident. Process and procedures will be gone over and the glaring questions, as per my earlier post will be asked. If the answers keep the HSE happy then no problems, if they don’t…

[seagoon]

Wiretwister:

Seagoon:
In this case the EPT was irrelevant because he was unloading cages. The EPT was for pallets at another drop. The paper is jumping to conclusions about him being crushed. Yes he was found with a full cage on top of him but until they do the post-mortem it won’t be known whether he had a heart attack and pulled the cage over as he collapsed or whatever. There were no witnesses so no conclusions can be drawn until a full investigation has been done. Speculation on here will be just wind and ■■■■ I’m afraid.
I’m afraid I didn’t know the guy well because he was days and I do Agency nights but as you can imagine the atmosphere isn’t good there at the moment. Poor sod was due to retire in 6 months too.
My condolences to his family who must be in bits.

I know what your saying but when fatalities occur the investigation will, without exception, go wider than the immediate incident. Process and procedures will be gone over and the glaring questions, as per my earlier post will be asked. If the answers keep the HSE happy then no problems, if they don’t…

OK if you insist…I very much doubt that he would have had a drop with a dock leveler but I don’t know,and I don’t see the relevance anyway.There is also a manual pallet truck on board - standing rules are to offload the EPT first then offload pallets with the manual truck then use the EPT for transport to the shop. I have no idea how the EPT is secured because I have never used one on that job (I trunk only - no shop deliveries).I would be very surprised if it is not secured the recommended way - if nothing else DHL are pretty hot on toeing the official line.
HTH

[kerbdog]

This thread is a duplicate of a thread posted a few days ago. I wonder if he had help from the shop staff, which makes you start down the line of the lads delivering to Aldi on their own at night time.

[winseer]

Issues here:

Why are we working at that age, and why on our own with street drops?
Bet the firm won’t be looking after the bereaved family - “All sub-contracted, not our responsibility” they’ll say.

RIP driver.

[the_fub]

Had a nasty incident on a similar vien about 12 years ago. Was pulling a fully laden cage towards the back of the trailer when it stopped suddenly and toppled forward trapping my foot. Because my foot got trapped I couldn’t get out of the way but threw myself side wards as best as I could. The cage smashed into my left leg and broke it in 2 places. All this happened in a split second and I would dread to think what would have happened if it had hit me full body As it was I got 10 weeks off work and gained a very healthy respect for cages after that but could have been a lot worse.

[comet]

Winseer:
Issues here:

Why are we working at that age, and why on our own with street drops?
Bet the firm won’t be looking after the bereaved family - “All sub-contracted, not our responsibility” they’ll say.

RIP driver.

Spot on why was he on his own at his age doing heavy manual labour while some spotty prick in the shop was playing ■■■■ on his iPad thinking its not my job.if it was a bricklayer on his own on site the h/s would have a field day but he’s is only a LORRY DRIVER,god bless your family and [zb] your transport manager.

I bet his tm has never done the job let alone got a lgv1 ,god this job has got to change

[pimpdaddy]

I hope elf & safety exec go to work on DHL/Nisa…

[starfighter]

I doubt the HSE will go to town on anyone. When they ask their questions the company will say “drivers are trained to decant heavy cages prior to moving them. This driver regrettably did not follow procedure.”

[nearly_there]

starfighter:
I doubt the HSE will go to town on anyone. When they ask their questions the company will say “drivers are trained to decant heavy cages prior to moving them. This driver regrettably did not follow procedure.”

How do you know he didnt

[starfighter]

nearly there:

starfighter:
I doubt the HSE will go to town on anyone. When they ask their questions the company will say “drivers are trained to decant heavy cages prior to moving them. This driver regrettably did not follow procedure.”

How do you know he didnt

Obviously I don’t know, but out of all the cage falls at our depot a common factor is that the driver did not decant the cage. We have had no cage falls where the driver did decant and the cage fell over anyway.

[rob_k]

comet:

Winseer:
Issues here:

Why are we working at that age, and why on our own with street drops?
Bet the firm won’t be looking after the bereaved family - “All sub-contracted, not our responsibility” they’ll say.

RIP driver.

Spot on why was he on his own at his age doing heavy manual labour while some spotty prick in the shop was playing ■■■■ on his iPad thinking its not my job.if it was a bricklayer on his own on site the h/s would have a field day but he’s is only a LORRY DRIVER,god bless your family and [zb] your transport manager.

I bet his tm has never done the job let alone got a lgv1 ,god this job has got to change

Because the youth of today can see a ■■■■ job when it stares them in the face and avoid them like the plague whereas the old school are mostly “yes” men who talk a good story but when it comes to the crunch roll over and do as they’re asked.

This is why no-one with any sense will work on jobs like this, same for Brakes, 3663 etc. They expect you to man handle half ton cages of produce on 1:4 hills delivering to hotels in the back of beyond, all by yourself. I bet if HSE actually had to go out with the drivers to set what they had to deal with at every drop it’d be changed to a 2-man job by the next day along with a whole bunch of other changes.

[comet]

You are spot on robk,we just get on with it always have,i have asked many times for the t/m and other clowns to come out
with me on a run to see what we have to put up with. Still waiting

p.s our t/m hasn’t even got a hgv licence ,

[huggy]

starfighter:
I doubt the HSE will go to town on anyone. When they ask their questions the company will say “drivers are trained to decant heavy cages prior to moving them. This driver regrettably did not follow procedure.”

how do you know that a split second mistake is all it takes the cages are to heavy its a 2 man job money saving again poor man rip mate

[huggy]

Kerbdog:
This thread is a duplicate of a thread posted a few days ago. I wonder if he had help from the shop staff, which makes you start down the line of the lads delivering to Aldi on their own at night time.

i said that on the previous forum mate i worked nights at aldi its a fatal accident waiting to happen .in saying that they would be more worried about the damaged goods than about you .they dont give a toss

[msgyorkie]

starfighter:
I doubt the HSE will go to town on anyone. When they ask their questions the company will say “drivers are trained to decant heavy cages prior to moving them. This driver regrettably did not follow procedure.”

Wrong! HSE will get their claws into this and will go to town. They are very very good at investigating and prosecuting deaths at work.
Back in the early 90’s I used to work in a small factory and had to use a circular saw that had no guards and was extremley dangerous. I used to complain to the factory Health and Saftey man but it always fell on deaf ears untill the day when a young lad took off his thumb and 3 fingers!!! HSE came down next day and immediatley condemned the saw. We got a new all singing all dancing saw, the young lad got £53,000 compo and the firm a nice fine!
I hope HSE throw the book at DHL and get things changed!