Keywords: health and safety, machine guarding, machinery, Severn Trent, Denis Hawksworth, Coventry,

Faulty interlock lands Severn Trent in hot water

Prosecutions and Claims |
11.02.2008

Failure to have a programme of planned maintenance and ignoring a warning about a broken interlock have landed Severn Trent Water before a Nottingham judge.

The Coventry-based utility company was prosecuted by the HSE after an incident in May 2006 when an employee lost part of his hand in a ...

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