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Food manufacturer fined £40,000 after worker’s fingers are severed (9 November 2015)

Date: 09/11/2015
Duncan Lewis, Personal Injury Solicitors, Food manufacturer fined £40,000 after worker’s fingers are severed

A Lincolnshire-based food manufacturer has been sentenced following an incident in which an employee had two fingers severed while cleaning machinery.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the worker’s fingers were severed when his hand came into contact with the paddles of a mixing machine he was cleaning.

HSE found that a supervisor had previously raised the issue of access to the dangerous parts of the machine in 2013, but the company had failed to take the necessary action.

The injured worker had also not received training on the machine – and the guarding standard of the mixer fell below what is required by law, giving rise to significant risk of injury.

The court heard that the safety standards the company needed to apply were widely available, long published and easily understood.

On Monday, 2 November 2015 at Boston Magistrates’ Court, Greencore Food To Go Ltd – of Waldentree Lane, Spalding in Lincolnshire – admitted breaches of Regulation 11 (1) of the Provision of Use of Work Regulations 1998 and Section 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

The company was fined £20,000 for each offence and ordered to pay full costs of £1,037.

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