{"id":535096,"date":"2026-04-17T01:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535096\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:04:17","slug":"redditch-firm-fined-after-mans-legs-crushed-by-one-tonne-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535096\/","title":{"rendered":"Redditch firm fined after man&#8217;s legs crushed by one-tonne block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A vehicle maintenance firm has been fined after a worker suffered &#8220;devastating and life-changing injuries&#8221; when his legs were crushed by a one-tonne concrete block.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The father-of-two, 35, was then sacked from his job at Redditch&#8217;s BA Mobile Fleet Services Limited, after the stack of blocks fell on his legs as a forklift truck was used to load them into an HGV box trailer, in December 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His left foot and lower leg both had to be amputated, said the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which also confirmed the forklift driver was untrained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Kidderminster Magistrates&#8217; Court, the firm pleaded guilty and was fined \u00a330,000, the HSE said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle maintenance firm has been fined after a worker suffered &#8220;devastating and life-changing injuries&#8221; when his legs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-535096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}