Recent figures show that over the last 12 months there has been close to a 100% increase in deaths in the farming industry due to workplace incidents (interestingly, this follows an all time low number in 2019-20) – 18 times higher than the average rate across all other industries, and this is unacceptable. Farmers and […]
Tag: machinery
Company fined after worker has arm amputated following entanglement in machine
Agricultural machines manufacturer Superior Machines Ltd was fined for safety breaches, after a 68-year-old worker suffered life threatening injuries when he became entangled on a manual lathe. York Magistrates’ Court heard that, the worker became entangled on either the rotating workpiece or the chuck as it rotated. He sustained extensive injuries including a punctured lung, […]
Engineering company fined after worker became entangled and pulled into a CNC lathe.
C F Booth (Engineering) Ltd has been sentenced after a 37-year-old worker became entangled and pulled into a CNC lathe. Sheffield Magistrates’ Court heard that he was working on a Hankook CNC lathe setting up a workpiece on a jig which was held in the chuck and on the steady at the company’s site at […]
Plastics manufacturer fined after a worker became entangled in unguarded machinery
Printed plastics manufacturer Alfaplas Limited has been fined after a worker became unconscious as a result of asphyxiation when his tabard was entangled in the rotating spindle of a print machine. Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court heard how, an employee who was a supervisor at Alfaplas Limited in Hereford, attempted to realign a reel of product on […]
Mattress manufacturer with no safe system of work in place inevitably leads to worker’s sever injuries
A Nottingham mattress manufacturer has been fined after an employee of the company suffered multiple injuries to his arm, shoulder, ribs and neck after he was drawn into a NG-06 Semi-Automatic Mattress Rolling Machine (MRM). Nottingham Magistrates Court heard how Dreamtouch Mattresses Ltd failed to prevent access to the dangerous parts of machinery on the […]