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6th September 2016
The installation engineer was commissioning a new conveyor belt system for postal operator UK Mail at its site in Coventry on 21 January 2015 when his arm was pulled in.
The machinery was not effectively guarded and there were no isolation procedures in place, the Health and Safety Executive found.
Sovex was found guilty of breaching s 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act. It was fined £170,000 with £24,000 costs at Warwick Crown Court.