Haulage firm fined £5,000
A HAULAGE company was fined £5,000 yesterday for breaking safety rules after one of its drivers died in a fall from his tanker.
Glasgow-based Carntyne Transport was fined at Cupar Sheriff Court after admitting failing to provide a safe place or safe systems of work, the Health and Safety Executive said.
The body of driver James Hutchinson, from Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, was found by two farm workers next to his tanker in February last year.
It is thought the 57-year-old fell three metres from the top of his vehicle after setting some valves for a delivery of animal feed. There was no safety rail on the driver's side of the tanker.
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