Wiring manufacturer in court for worker injuries

Posted on Friday 1 January 2010

A wiring manufacturer has been fined after a worker was seriously injured when he was caught in machinery at their site in Doncaster.

Doncaster Magistrates’ Court heard how on the July 2014 an operator was cleaning the base track of an unguarded automatic palletising line when the reel loading arm activated. It caught the operator at waist level crushing him onto the empty pallet causing serious injury to his pelvis.

On 1 September 2015, Amnack, trading as Doncaster Cables of Millfield Industrial Estate, Arksey Lane, Bentley, Doncaster, was fined a total of £7500 and ordered to pay costs of £2673 for breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

HSE inspector Carol Downes said after the hearing: “The prevention of part or whole body access to dangerous parts of machinery is a health and safety basic that is well known throughout all industries.”