Shocking moment crate of pallets falls from 18 FEET at B&M warehouse and narrowly misses fork-lift truck driver as worker says he feared for his life working for retailer

Shocking footage shows an 18-foot high crate of pallets collapse in a B&M warehouse, narrowly avoiding a nearby forklift truck driver.

Andrew Harvey, from Liverpool, worked at the warehouse in Speke, Merseyside for eight years and says he constantly feared for his safety.   

Mr Harvey, a forklift driver, collected evidence from his time at the warehouse, including the footage of the boxes falling and narrowly avoiding one of his co-workers below. He has since left the company. 

The 38-year-old said: 'I constantly worried for my own safety. If you thought about it too much you wouldn't be able to function in there.

'[These things] happened so often we became desensitised to it, but when you saw a near-miss right in front of you it brought back the reality of how easily you could be killed.'

Andrew Harvey, 38, from Liverpool, has since left the B&M warehouse in Speke

Other images show pallets having slipped off the racking but remain dangling precariously above the warehouse floor or even entire steel racking beams having crashed to the ground.

The 38-year-old claims thousands of pounds worth of stock often crashed to the floor from shelving and staff could 'easily have been killed'.

Despite claiming safety concerns were repeatedly raised to management, Andrew said the incidents continued and says former colleagues who work there claim it is still happening.

Andrew is now sharing his experiences inside B&M's warehouse in Speke, Merseyside, to 'prevent other workers from being put at risk'.

Andrew, from Liverpool, Merseyside, said: 'After the incident where the pallet fell 18ft, everyone was shocked. 

'It felt like the situation was never taken seriously because it was a constant worry that most staff had.

'What [appears] in these pictures is a very, very common occurrence.

'I felt in danger because of the state of the warehouse. I'm not exaggerating - every shift I saw [things like this] or near misses.

'Whenever we'd see something that wasn't safe we'd report it to the line manager [but it kept happening].

'As far as I'm aware, nothing has changed in the warehouse since I left. Definitely not from what I have heard. I've had a lot of messages from people telling me it's just as bad.

'I want to make sure my [former] colleagues are not in danger now so things can change for the people in there.'

Andrew, who has a 10-year-old daughter named Alyssa, stopped working for B&M around four weeks ago and has since found a new job as a warehouse operative.

B&M declined to comment but confirmed that the footage was from their warehouse.