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Warehouse fall 02.11.2005

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Warehouse fall

A serious injury to a young warehouse employee highlighted a number of important safety issues for employers in the warehousing and commercial storage sectors, including supervision of inexperienced workers. A 22-year-old employee received a crushed vertebra and fractured pelvis after he fell 3.5 metres from a temporary platform erected between two racking units in a warehouse. According to investigators, a competent supervisor would have recognised that working at such a height on unsecured boards was unsafe, and should not have been attempted.

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