Pages On: Faulty Work Equipment
Whilst fault equipment at work is a rare occurrence, it can often prove extremely dangerous. Equipment doesn’t have to be broken or dysfunctional to prove hazardous, sometimes design oversights to safety controls can be fatal to workers. If something has failed in its proper operation which you use for work, and has caused you injury, you probably stand a good chance of claiming work accident compensation.
Food company fined £35k for multiple workplace safety failings
Posted: 29 May 2014
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries
Kent-based rice processor ‘Veetee Foods’ has been fined £35,000 for safety failings for the second time this month. The firm was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a member of staff crushed three of their fingers in unguarded machinery. The member of staff, Khalil Ahmed, had been working on a machine whose guard had been intentionally removed, allowing staff to get too close to the moving parts. The factory on the Medway City Estate in Rochester was fined £30,000 and ordered to pay £5,492 in costs after admitting…
Read MoreFood company are prosecuted as worker severs fingertip
Posted: 30 May 2013
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A mincing machine has caused unnamed worker of an Ilkeston food company to severely sever his fingertip. When trying to remove meat from the machine, at Chilled Foods Limited’s Grange Farm factory in Loscoe, the worker managed to bring his hand into contact with the machine’s still-moving blade. Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court was told earlier this month, 8 May, that the machine had been switched off yet the blade was still slowing down. As the employee was collecting produce from the end of the production line, he realised that something…
Read MoreFirm admits neglecting safety after three workers injure their hands
Posted: 25 April 2013
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A Lincolnshire firm that makes disposable paper products has been ordered to pay more than £116,000 in fines and costs after three workers suffered hand injuries using unguarded machines. One man had to have his left thumb amputated after getting it crushed in unguarded machinery on a production line on 26th July 2011. He was off work for several months but has now returned to the company to work on other duties. A month later an agency worker cut her finger on the blade of a napkin folding machine, while…
Read MoreFood company in court over worker's hand injury
Posted: 12 March 2013
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A Leeds-based food company has been fined for safety failings after an agency worker had two fingers crushed by hydraulic rams in a sausage roll machine which had a broken guard. The 26-year-old worker was removing filling for pasties from a hopper on the machine when his fingers came into contact with dangerous moving parts. Two fingers on his right hand were badly injured. The middle finger has been left with no nerve sensation and his third finger, which had to be stitched back on, has only partial sensation. He…
Read MoreBrick firm breaks safety law causing worker to severely injure hand
Posted: 26 February 2013
Posted in: Faulty Work Equipment, Finger Injuries, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A West Yorkshire brick making firm has been prosecuted after safety failings at its factory led to a worker losing a thumb and having his hand almost severed in a poorly-guarded press machine. Surgeons managed to reattach the hand where it had been partially separated using nerve and tissue from his legs. The worker also had to undergo skin grafts and several other restorative operations. He has not been able to return to work. The court was told that the worker, a machine operative, had started to run a double…
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