Company fined after man left with brain injuries from accident

Timothy Bates was delivering fuel for a temporary diesel generator at Haldane Fisher Limited’s timber processing site on Long Street in Walsall on July 28, 2022, when he fell from a trailer.

Mr Bates, who is from Stafford, had been stowing equipment in a trailer attached to his truck when the vehicle was struck by a forklift truck reversing out of a nearby mill.

This led to the trailer shunting into Mr Bates, with the 57-year-old then falling over and hitting his head onto the yard floor below.