Keywords: waste, machinery, rotary screen, hand, unguarded machine,
De-gloving accident costs waste firm £50,000
Prosecutions and Claims |
01.05.2007
A waste management company has been fined £50,000 after an employee lost four fingers and had the flesh torn off his hand by an unguarded machine.
Bolton-based Greater Manchester Waste was fined on 22 March at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court after pleading guilty to charges u ...
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