A Shropshire businessman who supplies workplace vehicles and lifting equipment has been fined for falsifying a safety document for a forklift truck.

Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court was told that Stuart Jeavons intentionally made a false entry on a Report of Thorough Examination for the truck, a statutory document required by law to show that lifting equipment is in a good state of repair.

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A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found Mr Jeavons had put the name of a genuine forklift truck supplier at the top of the report and forged a genuine examiner’s signature at the bottom.

Stuart Jeavons, 57, of Bridge Road, Broseley, was fined £2,400 and ordered to pay costs of £989 after pleading guilty to a breach of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

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