Precast worker loses leg after 800kg pallet drop

A precast concrete manufacturer has been fined after a steel pallet landed on an employee leaving him permanently disabled.
The 800kg load crushed Wayne Hatton’s legs during a night shift at Amber Precast Ltd’s factory on 14 January 2021.
Hatton, from Doncaster, had his right lower leg amputated with two toes on his left foot also being removed following the incident at Davy Business Park.The pallet was being removed from a reinforced concrete cast when it fell onto the father-of-two