Friday 3 September 2010

Factory bosses knew machine safeguards weren’t operational

SHP Article

The owners of a manufacturing company appeared in front of magistrates to answer charges relating to an incident in which an employee had his fingers crushed in a hydraulic press.

The 57-year-old employee was working at Lupton Fabrication Ltd’s factory in Leeds when the incident took place, on 16 April 2009. He was operating a hydraulic press to create metal-edge trim, which is used to measure the thickness of setting concrete.

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http://www.shponline.co.uk/incourt-content/full/factory-bosses-knew-machine-safeguards-weren-t-operational


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