Keywords: Medway Council, work equipment, health and safety, safety, Donald Brown, severed fingers, greenkeeper,

Greenkeeper's severed fingers land council in court July 2008

Prosecutions and Claims |
09.06.2008

Medway Council has been fined £75,000 after an employee lost two digits in a poorly maintained mower.

On 15 September 2006, Donald Brown, a greenkeeper who worked at the authority's Deangate Ridge sports centre in Rochester, was trying to fix the grass-cutting cylinder on a tractor-dr ...

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