{"id":9205,"date":"2019-07-26T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:53:43","slug":"concrete-production-company-pleads-guilty-after-employee-loses-four-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbosafetyservices.co.uk\/staging\/concrete-production-company-pleads-guilty-after-employee-loses-four-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete production company pleads guilty after employee loses four fingers"},"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 concrete production company has today been fined after a welder lost four fingers during an unsafe lifting 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 Crown Court heard how on 27 September 2016, at a company\u2019s site, a forklift was being used to lift and swivel a large metal gate attached to the truck. They used a chain on a \u201cO-ring\u201d that was slotted onto the forklift truck tines, with nothing to prevent it sliding off. As the gate was being lifted, it slipped off the tines and fell to the floor, slicing off the welder\u2019s four fingers.<\/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;\">An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the company did not properly plan and supervise this lifting operation to ensure it was carried out in a safe manner.<\/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 Regulation 8(1) of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 and has been fined \u00a3400,000 and ordered to pay full costs of \u00a311,376.25.<\/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 case HSE inspector said: \u201cThe use of forklift truck, chain and O-ring was unsafe, putting workers at unnecessary risk. This incident could so easily have been avoided by simply having a competent person plan a safe lifting operation and providing adequate supervision to ensure the lifting operation was carried out safely.<\/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;\">\u201cCompanies should be aware that HSE will not hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action against those that fall below the required standards \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A concrete production company has today been fined after a welder lost four fingers during an unsafe lifting operation. 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