Safety Alert: Serious Injury – Fall From Height

A Mobile Plant Technician was to conduct routine maintenance work on a Straddle Carrier, simultaneously, the glass floor of the cabin was being replaced due to previous damage. As the Technician entered the cab, he was unaware that the floor grating had been raised with the glass floor removed and subsequently fell some 11m to the ground sustaining serious, potentially life changing, injuries.  He remains in ICU.

 

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