Machine accident company is finedManufacturing firm ADA Machining Services has been handed a fine of £26,000 after a worker suffered a series of injuries in a workplace accident - including the loss of his finger,.
The unnamed 53-year-old from Manchester caught his overalls in a metal-shaping machine at the firm's Ashton-under-Lyne factory in January 2008 and was pulled in. He lost a finger on his right hand and suffered a dozen cracked ribs, a cracked breast bone and friction burns on the left hand side of his body.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation was carried out and ADA, of Kayley Industrial Estate, Richmond Street, was found to have broken health and safety laws which required it to prevent access to any dangerous parts of machinery.
ADA pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 11(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 at a Trafford Magistrates' Court hearing. As well as the £26,000 fine, the company was also ordered to pay £6,220 in costs.
HSE investigating inspector David Norton said: "The company knew that rotating parts in the machinery were potentially dangerous. If it had installed a guard on the machine, as the law requires, it would have prevented someone being seriously injured."
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