TT Club highlights dangers at marine terminals

Labor

Friday, January 18, 2013

Insurer TT Club is highlighting the dangers to dockworkers from accidents involving heavy equipment in a recent publication. For example, it said lift trucks were involved in 30 percent of the bodily injury claims analyzed, mainly the result of trucks reversing into people. The installation of anti-collision devices could potentially have saved $30 million and prevented 51 workers from being killed or suffering serious injury over the last six years. The insurer noted...

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