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Mike McQuaid

Parcel firm fined £200k after worker loses leg in horrific accident

A business has been hit with a massive fine after one it's workers had his leg amputated after being hit by a forklift.

The 58-year-old spent weeks in hospital following the horrific accident.

DX Network Services had initially tried to blame Les More and the forklift driver for the incident.

He was trapped under the vehicle for an hour and surgeons couldn't save his left leg above the knee, the Daily Record reports.

But Sheriff Douglas Brown blasted parcels firm DX Network over the "clearly foreseeable" incident.

Fining them £200,000 he said there had been a "systemic failure" to separate forklifts and pedestrians at the Eurocentral depot in Lanarkshire.

The company, which employs 3,500 people in the UK, admitted breaching - workplace safety laws.

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard on Friday that -warehouse operative Les, 58, spent six weeks in hospital, including 15 days in intensive care, after the accident in January 2018.

Neil Thomson, prosecuting, said: "His left leg had to be amputated above the knee and he underwent four skin graft surgeries on his lower right leg.

"He continues to receive physiotherapy and -counselling. His wife has had to give up her job to become his full-time carer and their home has been modified."

DX Networks took steps after the accident to improve safety. Sheriff Brown said he would have fined it £300,000 had it not pleaded guilty.

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