Keywords: risk assessment, leg, investigation, spinning blade, severed, artificial limb,

Firm pays £60,000 for second faulty risk assessment

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.10.2006

A lack of adequate risk assessment that contributed to a worker losing half a leg has led a Coventry vehicle maker to a £60,000 fine. Maintenance fitter George Reeves was inside a large shot-blasting chamber giving it a routine fortnightly clean when a spinning blade severed his leg below t ...

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