Forklifts and worker-congested pathways can be a deadly mix, especially when forklift operators haven't been trained properly. A Tampa, FL-area subcontractor, Southeast Industrial Sales & Service, has been fined almost $10,000 in connection with a fatal incident at a chemical plant in Bartow, FL, in January, 2007. A forklift struck and killed 64-year-old safety director Roy Eugene Davis. Making his death even more devastating was the fact that Davis retired from his 30-year job only days earlier and had accepted a call to come back on a part-time basis. He was initially struck and knocked over, before being run over by one of […]