Recipient

Bailey Trailers Limited

First report 5 Oct 2021•Latest report 5 Oct 2021

Recipient record

Reports, concerns and published responses

Private and voluntary organisations · Private limited company. This page brings together reports naming this recipient and response statements clearly connected to concerns raised in those reports.

Reports: 1
Published responses: 100%
Concerns addressed: 2
Stated actions: 6

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100%published responses found

6stated actions described

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Concerns and recipient responses

Statements from Bailey Trailers Limited linked to the concerns in each report. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.

5 Oct2021
West Yorkshire Eastern
Concerns raised2
1. Lack of warning signs directing that trailer bodies be propped before work underneath
2. Lack of mechanical propping devices on agricultural trailers
Responses linked to these concerns
Each statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
Actions described in response 4
1. Action
  Design tipping trailers so routine maintenance does not require work beneath a raised body.
  Stated completed
2. Action
  Manufacture all tipping body models with hinged mechanical body props as standard safety features.
  Stated completed
3. Action
  Use safety decals to reinforce that users should not raise the trailer body unless necessary and securely supported.
  Stated completed
1. Action
  Revise the Operation and Maintenance Manual to require safe deployment of body supports and prohibit work beneath an unsecured raised body.
  Stated completed
AI-generated summary

Aaron Darie James Fretwell · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Report summary

Aaron Darie James Fretwell died after an agricultural trailer body descended while he was working beneath it, causing crush injuries. Concerns included the absence of a propping device and warning signs on the trailer, and evidence that other agricultural trailers may also have lacked these safety features, creating concern about comparable future accidents.

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How this individual concern was interpreted
PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Bailey Trailers Limited; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation
Lack of warning signs directing that trailer bodies be propped before work underneath
Wider context from the report
“1. No propping device was fitted to the trailer, which is understood to have been manufactured by Bailey Trailers Ltd in about 2002. 2. No warning signs were affixed to the trailer directing that the trailer body should be propped before anyone worked underneath it. 3. Trailers manufactured by 2002 should have complied with BS EN 1853: 1999 and/or the supply of machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992 which required a mechanical support to be installed to facilitate maintenance work to be carried out safely. 4. Evidence taken at the Inquest indicated that many types of agricultural trailers were in use without such propping devices or warning signs, which gives rise to concern that comparable accidents could occur in the future. ”
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How this individual concern was interpreted
PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Bailey Trailers Limited; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation
Lack of mechanical propping devices on agricultural trailers
Wider context from the report
“1. No propping device was fitted to the trailer, which is understood to have been manufactured by Bailey Trailers Ltd in about 2002. 2. No warning signs were affixed to the trailer directing that the trailer body should be propped before anyone worked underneath it. 3. Trailers manufactured by 2002 should have complied with BS EN 1853: 1999 and/or the supply of machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992 which required a mechanical support to be installed to facilitate maintenance work to be carried out safely. 4. Evidence taken at the Inquest indicated that many types of agricultural trailers were in use without such propping devices or warning signs, which gives rise to concern that comparable accidents could occur in the future. ”
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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Design tipping trailers so routine maintenance does not require work beneath a raised body.

Verbatim wording from the response
“The Company has designed the tipping trailers in a way which eliminates the need for maintenance to be carried out underneath a raised body which in itself would introduce potential risks which would need to be managed and reduced by engineering controls, i.e. by use of a prop.”

Source location
2021-0331-Response-from-Bailey-Trailers-Ltd_Published
Page 1 · response
Published 13 October 2021
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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Manufacture all tipping body models with hinged mechanical body props as standard safety features.

Verbatim wording from the response
“Notwithstanding that point, the Company can confirm that all of its tipping body models are now manufactured with body props as a standard feature as per paragraph 4.7.2 of BS EN 1853:2017 which states that “a mechanical support hinged to the trailer, in conformity with the requirements given in EN ISO 4254-1:2015, 4.11 shall be provided to secure the body in high position during maintenance operations”.”

Source location
2021-0331-Response-from-Bailey-Trailers-Ltd_Published
Page 1 · response
Published 13 October 2021
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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Use safety decals to reinforce that users should not raise the trailer body unless necessary and securely supported.

Verbatim wording from the response
“raise the body, the design of the trailer permits normal maintenance activities and adjustments to be undertaken without the need to raise the tipping body. In extraordinary circumstances where it may become necessary to raise the body, deploy the [mechanical body] support as described below”. The Manual reiterates the warning that users should “never work beneath the raised trailer body unless it is securely propped and supported”, and guidance is also given on how to deploy and stow the body support safely. Relevant safety decals (or signs) continue to be used to reinforce this point about not tipping the body unless absolutely necessary in the opinion of the user.”

Source location
2021-0331-Response-from-Bailey-Trailers-Ltd_Published
Page 2 · response
Published 13 October 2021
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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Revise the Operation and Maintenance Manual to require safe deployment of body supports and prohibit work beneath an unsecured raised body.

Verbatim wording from the response
“The general safety instructions within the Company’s revised Operation & Maintenance Manual for all tipping body trailers now states, “For normal maintenance and repairs it is not necessary to”

Source location
2021-0331-Response-from-Bailey-Trailers-Ltd_Published
Page 1 · response
Published 13 October 2021
Open published response

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Reports, concerns and published responses

Reports over time

Concerns raised2

Lack of warning signs directing that trailer bodies be propped before work underneath

Lack of mechanical propping devices on agricultural trailers

Actions described in response An action is something this recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to the concern raised.4

Actions described in response 4