Firm fined £30k after worker loses fingers
A meat processing plant has been fined £30,000 after a work accident, in which a man lost three fingers.
Reports claimed that the man was trying to repair a machine at the Prestwick plant when it started without warning and cut off the worker’s fingers.
It added that in June 2008, the man was working on an Endoline tape packaging machine that had been under repair and that when it failed to work he attempted to fix it.
But the machine could not be properly isolated to prevent accidental operation so it started, trapped and amputated his three fingers.
At hospital later one of the fingers was successfully reattached, but the victim no longer works for the firm.
However, the company has been taken over by a new management since the accident and there has been a huge improvement in health and safety, it was claimed further.
The company was ordered to pay the man £30,000 in compensation after it pleaded guilty on Wednesday at a court hearing.
Updated on 03/07/2009