Morrisons fined £15,000 after man’s foot is crushed

Morrisons Supermarket plc has been fined £15,000 for an accident in which an employee lost a toe after his foot was crushed by a defective truck.

The worker was driving a pallet truck that had a broken ‘dead man’s pedal’, which stops the truck if released.

His foot was crushed in a collision between the truck and a protection post at Morrisons’ Catcliffe store warehouse, South Yorkshire.

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