A company has been fined £60,000 after a young worker was severely injured when her hair was ripped out by poorly guarded machinery.
The 25-year-old was sorting clothes hangers on a conveyor when her scarf and hair became caught in the chain and sprocket drive of the belt as she bent over to remove accumulated hangers.
She sustained serious throat injuries, lost a substantial part of her hair and fractured a finger in the incident.
The firm had fitted a guard to the conveyor but it did not fully enclose the dangerous moving parts. There was no emergency stop button on the conveyor and the company's risk assessment failed to identify the dangers of entanglement in conveyors.
The company was fined £60,000 and ordered to pay costs of £21,668.
HSE Inspector David Wynne said: "Employers must ensure that workers are properly monitored, supervised and trained when working with this sort of equipment."
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Source: http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2013/rnn-w-mainetti.htm
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