Keywords: Health and safety, Weldex, Norman Fielding, blinded, PUWER,
Welder blinded by grinding disc
Prosecutions and Claims |
01.05.2008
A welding firm has been fined £10,500 after an employee was left blind in one eye after a metal-cutting disc shattered and a shard pierced his visor.
Gateshead magistrates decided that the accident at Weldex's Gateshead premises in August last year was the result of cost-cutting.
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