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£14,000 fine after trainee worker is crushed in machinery at office equipment manufacturer (14 December 2015)

Date: 14/12/2015
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, £14,000 fine after trainee worker is crushed in machinery at office equipment manufacturer

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a company which manufactures office equipment, after a trainee worker was injured when he was crushed by a metal folding machine.

The unnamed trainee employee was working for F C Brown (Steel Equipment) Limited of Newport in South Wales and had entered the guarded area of a metal folding machine to fix a fault.

While in the guarded area of the machinery, he was crushed between the fixed body of the machine and the machine’s moving manipulator arm, causing serious injury.

The incident shattered all of the worker’s ribs on his right side and broke two ribs on his left side. He was in hospital for two months.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive after the incident on 21 May 2014 found that there were insufficient measures taken by the company to control the risks associated with its maintenance activities.

At Newport Magistrates’ Court, F C Brown (Steel Equipment) Limited of Caswell Way, Reevesland Industrial Estate in Newport was fined a total of £14,000, with costs of £9,401, after pleading guilty to an offence under Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

After the hearing, HSE inspector Lee Schilling said:

“The injury could easily have been avoided had F C Brown (Steel Equipment) Limited provided sufficient training – and an adequate level of supervision –
to make sure safety measures were in place when machinery maintenance activities were being undertaken.”

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