Keywords: health and safety, Tesco, Natures Way, risk assessment, Archimedes, health and safety at work, PUWER,

Judge hands salad maker penalty for severed finger

Sasha Wood | Prosecutions and Claims |
07.11.2008

A company that produces bagged salads for Tesco has been fined £30,000 after a Polish cleaner lost one of her fingers in the screw auger of the factory production line in Chichester.

The cleaner, who was not familiar with the machine and had no training, was asked to help clean part o ...

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