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Lack of guard results in loss of fingers - 09-07-2008 |
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned employers to ensure they assess workplace machinery risks properly to ensure they have adequate safeguards in place. The warning follows HSE's prosecution of a Beds poultry company after a workers finger was amputated by unguarded parts of a machine.
C&P Bird Bros Ltd of Pertenhall Road in Swineshead, was fined £5000 and ordered to pay full costs at Bedford & Mid Bedfordshire Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to Regulation 11(1)(a) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) 1998.
On 24th August 2005 C&P Bird Bros employee Diane Davies from Riseley, started the scraper cleaning system in the chicken sheds. The drive cable had become entangled and would not run.
Ms Davies attempted to fix the machine by pulling on the cable. When the cable started to move her finger was pulled in between the pulley and the cable, and she suffered severe injuries resulting in the amputation of a finger.
The HSE investigation identified that the machine was not adequately guarded as the guard had been removed for a previous repair and had not been refitted.
HSE Inspector, Penny Leede said:
"The dangers of using these machines without suitable safeguards are well known. Serious injuries such as amputation can result when limbs, or parts of limbs, become trapped by moving parts. This serious incident could and should have been prevented by the company by ensuring that dangerous parts were adequately guarded.
"This case illustrates how things can go wrong when risks are not properly controlled and HSE will not hesitate to take action against those who fall short of the law in such a way."
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