A LOGISTICS company has been ordered to assess injury risks by next week following an investigation into an incident at the Mini Plant in Cowley.

In October, a man believed to be in his 50s, was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital with serious injuries following an incident at the factory.

Rudolph and Hellmann Automotive Ltd, which is contracted to BMW, was served with both an improvement notice and a prohibition notice by the Health and Safety Executive in January preventing it from carrying out lifting operations.

The prohibition notice said the company did not have “a safe system of work”.

The improvement notice requires the company to provide suitable assessment of injury risk by May 5, having initially failed to do so in January.

HSE first issued an immediate prohibition notice banning the company from its lifting operations in November because of a risk of immediate harm to workers.

In October Rudolph and Hellmann was also issued with an improvement notice, which they complied with the following month.

The firm has worked on the site since 2001 and was awarded a six-year contract for the logistics of the assembly and production at the site in 2011.

The investigation into the incident is still ongoing.

Rudolph & Hellmann Automotive Ltd did not respond to a request for comment.