Worker cleaning machine suffers finger amputation
A WEST Yorkshire cosmetic manufacturing company has been fined after a worker lost part of a finger while cleaning a machine.
A WEST Yorkshire cosmetic manufacturing company has been fined after a worker lost part of a finger while cleaning a machine.
A TEXTILES company has been fined £60k after a man broke his arm when it was dragged into machinery at a site near Chorley.
A GARDEN landscaper has been handed a suspended prison sentence after a worker was killed when a moving circular saw kicked back into his groin.
A RECYCLING company in Weston-super-Mare has been fined £24,000 after one of its workers suffered serious injuries after his arm was dragged into a machine.
AN ABERDEEN joinery and manufacturing company has been fined £9,400 after one of its workers suffered horrific injuries while cleaning a machine.
A HEREFORDSHIRE catering and retail butchers has been fined after a teenage worker severed three fingers and partially a fourth while operating machinery that hadn’t been suitably guarded.
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.
GATES ENGINEERING and Services UK Limited was fined £200,000 after a worker was caught in a machine, breaking his arm in two places.
PUWER MACHINERY Guarding specialises in updating older machinery so that it complies with the requirements of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER 98).
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