Tributes to Brigg lift-death victim
Thursday, 1.40pm: THE man killed whilst working in a lift shaft at a Brigg carpet warehouse was company owner Andrew Fleming.
Mr Fleming, who was involved with family in the operation of AF Carpets in Bridge Street, died on Tuesday afternoon whilst working on lift maintenace. He became trapped between the cage of the lift and the lift shaft itself.
As previously reported on this website, emergency crews tried to save him but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Humberside fire service's Nick Grainger said crews stabilised the lift and then reached the man to check whether he was still alive.
"Very sadly he had lost his life at that point. The family were here on scene - they initially thought he was just injured," said Mr Grainger.
Tributes have been paid to Mr Fleming, who lived at Moor Road, Owersby, having moved from Osgodby. He was born in Hibaldstow, had attended the Vale of Ancholme School and was in his early 40s.
Neighbours have refered to him as 'a genuine, nice lad', 'a lovely man and a good neighbour' and Nigel Sherwood whose shop is close to the carpet warehouse and had known Mr Fleming for many years, described him as a man who 'got on with everybody.'
AF Carpets was set up in 1986 in a renovated cattle shed, which is now a Tesco store and moved to the old chapel warehouse when Northern Upholstery moved out about a decade ago.
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A spokeswoman for East Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We received a 999 call to attend an incident in Brigg and our Fast Response Vehicle was on the scene within two minutes, followed by an ambulance which arrived within six minutes."
Neither the Health and Safety Executive, North Lincs Council nor the business have commented on the incident.
The death came just under a week before Monday's Workers' Memorial day, on April 28, when RoSPA campaigned to ensure that workplace deaths were not forgotten.
They say that every fortnight 400 people die in Britain because of the failure to ensure safe and healthy conditions in workplaces.
Roger Bibbings, occupational safety adviser for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: "Because workers rarely die in high-profile disasters, their plight and the silent suffering of their families tends to go unnoticed.
"But if one jumbo jet crashed every two weeks killing all 400 people on board there would be a national outcry – and that is the rate at which workers are dying. Workers' Memorial Day offers a chance to remember those who have been harmed at work and to redouble efforts to protect those who remain at risk."
The figure includes more than 100 people dying annually in accidents connected with work activity, 1,000 in work-related road accidents and between 6,000 and 24,000 who suffer early death due to work-related health damage.
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