A Barking firm has been prosecuted for safety failings after an employee severed the tendons in his hand on an unguarded saw blade.
The worker needed a five-hour operation to repair the damage following the incident at Kierbeck Thames Ltd., on River Road, on 23 February 2012. He has been left wit…
Tangerine Confectionery Ltd. has been sentenced after part of a worker’s finger was severed, reports the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The employee was trying to remove a blockage in one of the sweet-making machines when his left hand was pulled in, severing his index finger to the top knuckl…
Matrix Polymers, Northampton, has been fined for safety failings after a worker's left hand was severed in a plastics mixing machine.
Gary McKeown had been emptying plastic granules from a hatch at the bottom of a blender when his hand got caught in rotating parts and was sheared off.
The company p…
Health Protection Agency fined for spillage
The HPA has been fined £25,000 following the spillage of up to a billion doses of the lethal bug E.coli during an accident at its north London laboratory.
A ferry crewman has been crushed by a water-tight hydraulic d…