A company based in Dudley has been fined for safety failings after an employee suffered injury to his left hand.
The company – AirDesign (UK) manufactures heat recovery units.
On the 10 March 2015 a 36 year old employee was operating an unguarded notching machine when his finger became entangled in the machinery. This caused an injury to a finger on his left hand which later required amputation to the second joint.
On October 6 2015 AirDesign were fined a total of £2000 and order to pay £632.36 in costs after pleading guilty to an offence under Regulation 11 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.
The need to guard dangerous parts of machinery is well known and the consequences of not guarding to current standards are as above.
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