Workwear company employee suffers horrific injury
A LEADING workwear company has been fined £400,000 after an employee had the skin ripped off the palm of her left hand.
A LEADING workwear company has been fined £400,000 after an employee had the skin ripped off the palm of her left hand.
A WELSHPOOL manufacturing company has been fined £100,000 after one of its employees partially severed two fingers while trying to find a fault in a machine.
TATA STEEL UK has been fined £120,000 after a worker suffered serious head injuries after being hit in the face with a scaffold pole, causing him to fall backwards.
IN CLONMEL Circuit Court, Judge John Martin handed down a 12 month prison sentence on an employer who had earlier pleaded guilty to charges in breach of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007.
APPEARING AT Coleraine Crown court, Mr Derek Nummy was fined £15,000. In addition a forfeiture order was granted in respect of the JCB loading shovel involved in the incident.
A MANUFACTURING company has been fined after a dad was drawn into a machine and broke his arm in two places.
A VAPE liquid manufacturing company in Manchester has been fined after a worker lost two fingers and a thumb while clearing a blockage in a packaging machine.
CHELMSFORD CITY Council has been fined £80,000 for waste collection safety failures, after a father-of-three died when he was struck by a bin lorry.
A GARDEN supplies company owner has been jailed and the firm has been fined £700,000 after a worker was crushed to death by a robotic packing arm.
THE SCHMERSAL Group has expanded its range of optoelectronic protective devices with a series of safety light curtains/grids in Ex design.
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