£340,000 fine for firm after worker suffers serious hand injury while cleaning machine
A South West manufacturing company has been fined £340,000 after an employee had his fingers severed while cleaning machinery at its factory.
The incident happened in March 2023 when the 42-year-old was working a night shift Tyco Electronics UK in Swindon.
The man spent 10 days in hospital during which he needed three operations to reattach his fingers.
According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which prosecuted the firm, the worker had been tasked with cleaning a machine used to manufacture pellets from a mixture o... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
