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 Lathe access failures cost manufacturer £200k after trainee’s arm fractures

Thursday 25th May 2023
A Northumberland-based manufacturer must pay a fine of £200,000 after its failure to enclose a lathe in a fixed perimeter guard and prevent access to the work area led to a trainee’s left arm being pulled into the lathe.
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 Ineffective control measures on industrial food mixer led to amputation and £858k fine

Thursday 12th January 2023
A Kent-based food production company has been fined £858,000 after a 26-year-old employee had to have his right arm surgically removed following an incident.
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 Chipboard manufacturer lands record £2.15m Scottish fine for fatal 90% burns

Tuesday 29th November 2022
Chipboard manufacturer Norbord Europe Limited has been fined £2.15m after a four-week trial held at Perth Sheriff Court in Scotland found that a series of failings at its Cowie site in Stirlingshire in July 2016 had led to an employee’s death.
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 Poor planning of floorspace led to worker’s burns death

Thursday 24th November 2022
We spoke to HSE Inspector Rose Leese-Weller about how failures in the earliest stages of planning a catering equipment cleaning facility’s shopfloor ultimately led to a worker fatality.
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 Exclusive interview: why Nestlé was fined £800,000 for repeat incidents

Wednesday 23rd November 2022
IOSH magazine spoke to HSE inspector Bill Gilroy about a serious accident at a Nestlé factory in Newcastle – an almost carbon copy of a previous incident at another of the confectionary firm’s factories.
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  Nestlè prosecuted after man’s arm trapped in Rolo machine

Tuesday 1st November 2022
Food manufacturing giant Nestlè has been ordered to pay more than £800,000 after a worker’s arm was drawn into a roller mechanism on a conveyor machine.
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 £115,000 fine after hand amputated by machine – how it happened

Tuesday 25th October 2022
We speak to HSE Inspector Sarah Baldwin-Jones about how an engineer had his hand amputated after trying to fix a cardboard box-making machine.
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 Bernard Matthews fined £400,000 after worker left paralysed

Friday 21st October 2022
The food manufacturer has been fined £400,000 after an employee sustained a pierced left lung, several broken ribs, four fractured vertebrae and a spinal bleed after being drawn in to a large screw conveyor.
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 Guidance updated for UKCA

Thursday 1st September 2022
Guidance on UKCA marks post-Brexit were recently updated by the Office for Product Safety and Standards for clarity.
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 Haulage firm liable after engineer injured in oxygen cylinder explosion

Thursday 25th August 2022
A judge disagrees with company’s argument that it did not have control of the workplace, so no duty was owed.
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