A Leek company that makes webbing for seatbelts and harnesses has been fined after an employee trapped both arms in a machine and suffered severe burns.
Stewart Wood, a dye machine operative at Marling Leek Limited, was working a night shift on August 2 last year when webbing became wrapped …
A Cardiff manufacturing company has been fined after a worker lost the tip of a finger while using an unguarded drill.
Vaughan Thomas, 21, from Caerphilly, was working at MIB Manufacturing Limited's factory on Rising Sun Industrial Estate, Blaina, when the incident happened on 26 April 2011.
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A West Yorkshire engineering firm has been fined after a worker was
badly injured when he became entangled in a rotating machine tool that
caught him by the neck.
Mr Tomas Cisarik, 33, suffered a deep gash running 20cms long and 8cms wide on his back, a cracked foot bone and severe friction b…
A Brislington-based machining company has been prosecuted for failing to adequately guard dangerous parts of machinery resulting in a worker suffering serious head and chest injuries.
On 11 June 2012, Bristol Magistrates Court heard that 34 year old Ian Spicer, from Hartcliffe in Bristol, was…
A West Midlands metal polishing firm has been fined after two workers were injured in separate incidents just five months apart involving inadequately guarded machinery.
The first occurred at Farrelly's Metal Polishers Ltd. in Wednesbury on 1 March last year when employee Ubaid Rehman's left …
A worker from County Durham had his hand severed while carrying out maintenance on glass cutting machinery a court heard.
The 34-year-old maintenance technician was investigating a fault on a new tilt table with a colleague at the UK’s largest glass manufacturer Solaglas.
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A Keighley firm has been fined £15,000 for a serious safety breach after a worker severed three fingers in a machine with rotating spikes.
The 26 year-old employee lost two fingers completely and a third just below the knuckle on his dominant hand while working on a carding machine at JTS Cu…
A sand and gravel supplier has been fined for safety failings after an employee had three tendons in his hand severed.
Jamie Roden, 26, from Telford, was trying to clear a blockage in a machine used to bag quarried material when his hand was caught by a dangerous heat-sealing device with a blad…
A component engineering company in Cheltenham has been fined after an employee suffered head injuries on a machine that had a safety mechanism deliberately disabled.
Grzegorz Chylenski, 33, from Cheltenham, was working with a Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machine at PG Components Ltd.…
A waste management and recycling company has been fined for safety failings after a worker lost most of his arm on an unguarded conveyor system at a Kent quarry.
Agency employee Vladislavs Golovacs, 45, from Gravesend, was attempting to clear a blockage at Pinden Quarry, in Longfield, near …
An adhesive tape manufacturer has been prosecuted after a 19-year-old agency worker severed his thumb in machinery at a factory in Wellingborough.
The worker had only been working at Latrave Ltd. for three weeks when the incident happened on 25 August 2010.
He was being trained to fix a kn…
A Bradford textile firm has been sentenced for safety failures after a worker was left with a long-term hand injury after only a month in the job.
The 30 year-old employee joined Whitaker Fibres Ltd., trading as Howarth Scouring Company, in March 2011 as a wool sorter, a job that did not in…
A retail marketing company has been ordered to pay £118,500 in fines
and costs for serious safety failings after a worker at its Wakefield
printing site was crushed to death.
Bezier Ltd., which employs some 700 people across nine UK sites, failed to heed warnings that could have saved the li…
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…