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£6,000 fine after apprentice loses finger in unguarded industrial machinery (27 April 2016)

Date: 27/04/2016
Duncan Lewis, Personal Injury Solicitors, £6,000 fine after apprentice loses finger in unguarded industrial machinery

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a manufacturer of adhesive tape, after a 16-year-old apprentice lost his finger on a rotary die press.

On 9 September 2014, the apprentice was working at James Fussell – trading as Tecman Speciality Materials – of Berrington Road in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire – and was adjusting guides on a laminating head, which is part of a rotary die press.

While making the adjustment, he tripped and put his hands forward – his index finger got caught in the drive gear at the rear of the laminating unit and as a result of the injury he sustained, the top of his finger was later amputated.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive into the incident found that the machine did not have appropriate guards in place to prevent access to dangerous parts of the rotary press.

James Fussell trading as Tecman Speciality Materials pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 11(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and was fined £6,000 with £1,754 costs.

After the hearing, HSE Inspector Michelle Morrison said:

“If the company had ensured that access to the dangerous moving parts of the rotary die press had been prevented, then this young man would not have lost the top of one of his fingers.

“This was an entirely preventable incident.”

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