£26k fine for failure to guard machinery
A factory in Ashton-under-Lyme has been fined £26,000 after one of its workers suffered major injuries when he became trapped in rotating machinery.
The employee was pulled into a metal-shaping machine when his overalls became entangled; he one finger on his right hand and badly injured another; he suffered a dozen broken ribs, a cracked breast bone and friction burns to the left hand side of his body.
The subsequent HSE investigation found the company had failed to comply with a health and safety law requiring it to prevent access to any dangerous parts of machinery. The company pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 11(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and was ordered to pay £6,220 towards the costs of the prosecution in addition to the fine.
Did you know there were 32 deaths and more than 22,000 serious injuries in the manufacturing sector in Great Britain last year?
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