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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Company fined after lorry crushes worker  A firm has been fined after an employee was seriously injured when he was crushed by a reversing lorry. Dartford-based KBC Logistics Ltd was prosecuted following the incident earlier this year, in which driver Leslaw Chorazak, 54, suffered severe crush injuries to his right arm, body and collar bone and spent several days in hospital. He was struck by a lorry he was guiding when he bent down to pick up a torch. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the facility was poorly lit and that there was no means of separating pedestrians from vehicles. HSE inspector Nicola Surrey said it was only "good fortune" that Mr Chorazak was not killed. "Working with moving vehicles is a high risk activity which causes significant numbers of major and fatal injuries every year in this country," she added. Figures indicate that hundreds of employees could be seeking help from an accident at work solicitor every year for similar incidents. Last year, 17 workers were killed and more than 530 suffered major injury after being hit by moving vehicles while at work in Great Britain, according to the HSE. Posted by Paul Stevens 
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