£380,000 fine for firm after delivery driver suffers brain injury in Walsall yard fall
A company has been fined £380,000 after a delivery driver fell and suffered a traumatic brain injury while working at its site.
Timothy Bates was delivering fuel for a temporary diesel generator at Haldane Fisher Limited’s timber processing site on Long Street in Walsall on July 28, 2022, when he fell from a trailer.
Mr Bates, who is from Stafford, had been stowing equipment in a trailer attached to his truck when the vehicle was struck by a forklift truck reversing out of a nearby mill.
This led to the trailer shunting into Mr Bates, with the 57-year-old then falling over and hitting his head onto the yard floor below.
He spent five weeks in hospital after sustaining a traumatic brain injury before spending 13 weeks in a care facility where he undertook cognitive behavioural therapy. He continues to suffer from memory loss and dizziness as a result of his injury.
