Lone Working Issue Emerges from Inquest

A coroner presiding over the fatal accident inquest into the death of a bus mechanic is to raise the issue of lone working with the HSE.  The jury determined accidental death; the deceased was found under a bus in January this year at the Arriva depot in Oswestry.  It was speculated that he may have forgotten to reapply the handbrake after trying to move the bus which had, it is believed, rolled on to him, but not over him.

November 2009