British Airways has been fined more than £3.2 million after a luggage handler suffered a bleed on the brain and another broke his back when he fell from height while working at Heathrow Airport.
Two employees were injured in 'near identical' incidents just months apart while using loading equipment that did not have sufficient protection including edge guard rails, London's Southwark Crown Court heard.
Ravinder Teji, a ground operation agent who had been with the company for seven years, suffered back injuries and cut his head after falling 1.5 metres to the ground from a televator on August 25, 2022.
And Shahjahan Malik was 'seriously injured' with a bleed on the brain after plunging three metres as he used TLD elevator on March 8, 2023.
Televators and TLD elevators are machines that are used to load baggage containers into aircraft holds. Operators can be between 1.5 and 3.0 metres above ground level while they are in use.
