Recycling firm penalised after telehandler caused life-changing injuries
Photo: Lautertal Eichelhain Log stacks Forest road by UuMUfQ, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
HSE reported that a recycling company was fined after an employee suffered life-changing injuries in a telehandler incident. Telehandlers and counterbalance trucks are standard equipment on pallet recycling and repair yards.
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- Source organisation
- Health and Safety Executive
- Original date
- 13 Mar 2026
- Published by us
- 17 Sept 2026
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