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£42,000 fine for company after worker loses sight in eye (8 October 2015)

Date: 08/10/2015
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, £42,000 fine for company after worker loses sight in eye

A Lancashire-based hydraulic cylinder manufacturer has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an employee lost the sight in one eye.

Lodematic (Components) Ltd based in Clitheroe failed to carry out a risk assessment when the worker and the Works Manager and Design Engineer in pressure were testing a hydraulic cylinder. HSE investigators also found that the test zone had not been segregated or safeguarded – and test equipment was not maintained and suitable for the task.

On 23 January 2014, the worker was struck in the face by a pressurised hose during a test, after a connector failed catastrophically. He suffered a broken jaw, multiple facial lacerations and total blindness in his right eye.

The incident occurred at Lodematic (Components) Ltd’s site at Number 1, 2 and 3 Works, Primrose Road, Clitheroe in Lancashire.

On Friday 2, October 2015 at Preston Crown Court, Lodematic (Components) Ltd pleaded guilty to a breach of Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and was fined £35,000 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £7,835.52.

After the hearing, HSE inspector Bradley Wigglesworth said:

“Lodematic Components Limited failed to assess the risks or provide a safe system of work for pressure testing hydraulic cylinders.

“The test was carried out without segregating or safeguarding the test zone and the test connectors were not subject to maintenance or inspection.

“If these measures had been in place at the time of the incident, then the employee’s life changing injuries could have been avoided.”

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