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£24,000 penalty after worker suffers serious arm and hand injuries on lathe (21 July 2016)

Date: 21/07/2016
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, £24,000 penalty after worker suffers serious arm and hand injuries on lathe

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a Leeds-based company, after a worker suffered injury when his hand came into contact with a lathe.

HSE investigators discovered that the incident on 17 September 2014 occurred when an employee of Rotherham Group Realisations Limited was tasked with turning and polishing metal bars, with no specific instructions on how this should be completed.

The unnamed worker was holding an emery cloth in his gloved hand around the rotating lathe, when his hand came into contact with the lathe – he sustained fractures to his right arm, wrist and hand.

HSE investigators found that the risk assessment for using the lathe was not suitable or sufficient – and there was no written safe system of work for polishing on the lathe.

At Rotherham Magistrates’ Court, Rotherham Group Realisations Limited – formerly known as MTL Group Limited – of Bridgewater Place, Water Lane in Leeds pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

The company was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,316.

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