Falling Objects at Work

A manufacturing company has been fined £25,000 after an employee suffering multiple injuries when he was struck by two steel discs, each weighing a quarter of a tonne.

The Importance of a Safe System of Work

We wrote last week about how a woodworker had been fined for allowing access to an unguarded circular saw blade.

This week a manufacturing company has been fined £4,700 following an accident which illustrates just how dangerous such blades can be. Their employee was using the circular saw to manufacture playground equipment when it ‘kicked back’, causing severe lacerations to his hand. The employee lost four fingers as a result of the accident.