A labels company has been fined for a safety breach after a worker sustained a serious hand injury when it was caught between two contra rotating rollers on a working machine.
The employee severed the first finger of his right hand to the second knuckle and broke his middle finger in the incident.
He was attempting to clean a coating roller on a finishing machine, and had removed the roller several times to make adjustments and clean away dried on primer. He then tried to brush off the dried primer from the roller while it was in situ on the working machine, but his right hand was caught and pulled between two rollers.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive established that the machine was missing suitable guarding, and had been for some time. Had a guard been fitted the incident would have been avoided.
The company was fined £7,000 and ordered to pay £5,637 in costs after pleading guilty.
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Source: http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2013/rnn-se-00313.htm?eban=rss-
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