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Manufacturing firm fined after worker’s arm injured in roller
05 September 2016
A Wirral based company has been fined £170,000 after a worker’s arm was injured in machinery.
Warwick Crown Court heard how an installation engineer of Sovex suffered a broken arm when it was pulled into machinery at the UK Mail site in Coventry, where he was commissioning a new conveyor belt system.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident which occurred on 21 January 2015, found there was a lack of effective guarding and isolation procedures on the machinery.
Sovex, of Prenton Business Park, Prenton Way, Prenton, Wirral, was found guilty of breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and was fined £170,000 with £24,000 costs.
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