{"id":9025,"date":"2019-04-01T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:03:01","slug":"company-fined-1-4m-after-worker-suffers-serious-crush-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/company-fined-1-4m-after-worker-suffers-serious-crush-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Company fined \u00a31.4m after worker suffers serious crush injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">A food processing company, has today been sentenced after a worker was injured while unblocking a machine on the poultry slaughter line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Magistrates\u2019 Court heard how, on 6 September 2012, an employee of the company was attempting to clear a blockage on a conveying system when he was struck by a large metal stillage. As a result, his body was crushed at chest height against the end of the unit, and he sustained multiple injuries including several fractured ribs, fractures to his back and a punctured lung.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company had failed to identify deficiencies in the guarding on the machine, and the clearing of blockages was usually carried out while the machine was still in operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The company pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) and Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and has been fined \u00a31.4 million with \u00a338,000 in costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector said: \u201cThe employee\u2019s life-threatening injuries could easily have been prevented had the company identified the guarding deficiencies and put in place simple measures to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u201cThis should serve as a lesson to others in the food processing industry about the importance of effectively guarding their machinery to stop others being similarly injured.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A food processing company, has today been sentenced after a worker was injured while unblocking a machine on the poultry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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