A horticultural business in Southampton has been prosecuted for safety failings after a worker injured his hand on an unguarded machine.
General labourer Edmund Skweres, 52, suffered a deep cut that required 11 stitches in the incident at A E Roberts (Fruitgrower & Nurseryman) Ltd., on Gravel…
A Bolton pallet manufacturer has been convicted for health and safety
offences after a factory worker's fingers were cut off by a rotating
saw.
The 27-year-old lost three fingers on his left hand, down to the second knuckle, while working at Frank Hill Ltd. on the Scot Lane Industrial Estat…
A multinational brick making company has been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries when he was crushed on a conveyor belt at its Worcestershire factory.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Wienerberger Ltd. following the incident on 19 October 2009 at the company's site…
A St Helens steel manufacturer has been sentenced after a worker suffered serious injuries to his left hand when it was pulled into machinery.
Hi Tech Steel Services Ltd. was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the incident at its factory at Bold Industrial Estate …
A Worcestershire egg company has been fined after a worker severed two fingers while cleaning a drain on a production line.
The 25 year-old employee lost part of his index and middle fingers on his right hand when it came into contact with a heavy duty blade at Bumble Hole Foods Ltd., Fockbury,…
A Lancashire animal feed firm has been sentenced after an employee lost one of his fingers in machinery.
The 25-year-old worker was trying to clear a blockage at Merit (Feeds and Storage) Ltd. when his hand became trapped at its factory at Oakenclough Mill near Garstang.
The company was prosec…
A Dorset dairy has been prosecuted after an employee was injured when his arm was pulled into a slurry separator.
Andrew James Ray, 47, was cleaning the equipment at the dairy owned by M Hooper and Sons Ltd. in Winterborne Tomson on 2 January 2009.
Weymouth Magistrates' Court heard an unsafe sys…
A worker employed to clear out an industrial chicken shed lost his arm after it became trapped in unguarded machinery.
Mike Aubry, 27, of Bradninch, near Exeter, was working at Millard Poultry Ltd at Little Acre, Lower Godney, Wells, when the incident happened on 4 December, 2010.
In a prosecution…
A Birmingham engineering company has been fined after a man's finger was severed in a tube bending machine.
Robert Cuzick, 53, from Birmingham was working at Hydrapower Dynamics on 24 January 2011 when he put his hand on the machine's clamping arm to restart it.
However, the unguarded metal arm su…
One of the UK's leading printing groups has been fined £112,500 at Peterborough Crown Court after a maintenance engineer was crushed to death in a printing press.
Ian Ebbs, a 43-year-old father of two from Morton, near Bourne in Lincolnshire, was working the night shift at the Wyndeham Peterboro…
A machinery manufacturer has been fined after its hydraulic press crushed a Stranraer worker’s arm which was later amputated.
James McKay, 47, had been operating the machine which had been designed by Composite Integration Limited to produce fire helmets. The hydraulic press was being used at M…
A Warwickshire components manufacturer has been fined after a man's hand was badly crushed in a power press.
The 23-year-old agency worker lost two fingers following the incident at Studley firm Ricor Ltd. on 21 July 2011.
Leamington Spa Magistrates' Court heard how the man was removing a complet…
A West Yorkshire manufacturing firm has been fined after an engineer lost part of a finger while test running an unguarded power press.
Metal Closures (Huddersfield) Ltd. was prosecuted after James Hill, a development engineer, was injured while helping to run and de-bug a new production line inc…
Bradford Crown Court has been told that a Halifax man was killed at a Nestle factory because the company failed to implement basic safety measures.
Father of three Nazar Hussain died at food giant Nestle's Albion Mill plant in Bailey Hall Road in December 2008 after a colleague re-started a conve…
A Liverpool bedding firm has been prosecuted after one of its employees had three fingers and a thumb cut off in machinery.
The 32-year-old worker was trying to stop a quilt becoming entangled in a duvet-making machine when the fingers and thumb on her right hand were struck by a blade.
Her employ…
A Lincolnshire food manufacturer has been fined after a worker fell from a breadcrumb-making machine.
The 39-year-old maintenance technician from Gainsborough had climbed onto the machine at Kerry Ingredients (UK) Ltd in Carr Lane, to install a lifting beam across the top of the large vessel in or…
Durham County Council has been prosecuted for safety failings after a grounds-man's arm was severed in a wood chipper machine.
The 25-year-old council worker, from Ferryhill, who does not wish to be named, was cutting back bushes near Atherton Close, Spennymoor when the incident occurred on 4 Augu…
DS Smith Packaging Ltd. has been fined after an employee suffered breaks to his arm and ribs in machinery at a Lincolnshire factory.
The 27-year-old man, who does not wish to be named, was being trained to use a re-winder - a rotating spool that winds corrugated cardboard packaging into a roll - …
A manufacturing company based in Uxbridge has been fined for a series of health and safety breaches which put its employees at risk.
The large number of Notices were issued between September 2010 and March 2011, after a wide range of health and safety failings were discovered at the company's pre…
A firm specialising in manufacturing rubber components for the automotive industry has been prosecuted after a worker suffered disabling hand injuries.
The 46-year-old worker from Coalville, Leicestershire, who has asked not to be named, has been left with only the thumb on his left hand fully intac…
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