Delivery Driver Killed by Overhead Power Line

On 13th May 2021, 43-year-old Patrick ‘Paddy’ Rice was operating a tipper lorry at VB Farms LLP’s Littlecombe Farm in Crediton, Devon. The hydraulic arm of his tipper lorry came into contact with an 11kV overhead power line and Mr Rice was fatally electrocuted after exiting the lorry.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found VB Farms LLP had failed to carry out an assessment of how the work could be completed safely and did not consider the dangers involved with working near an overhead power line. The company was fined £60,000.

Read more at: https://www.ioshmagazine.com/2023/09/28/tipper-driver-fatally-electrocuted-power-line