05/10/2010 - Couple fined over worker injury
A Lancashire couple have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an employee was seriously hurt twice in less than two months at a pine furniture workshop in Lancashire.
On 13 July 2009, Simon Davies, from Bacup, was cutting a small groove into a pine door when it shot out of the machine, pushing his left hand onto a rotating blade.
The 21-year-old suffered a badly cut index finger, a broken bone and had to have most of his nail removed.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Kenneth Bramhall and Gill Brown, who run Village Pine on Newchurch Road in Bacup, for failing to provide suitable training for employees, as well as for not adequately controlling the risk to workers of being injured.
Reedley Magistrates' Court in Burnley was also told that only three weeks before the July incident, HSE had issued seven enforcement notices after Mr Davies suffered similar injuries from a circular saw.
Bramhall, 51, and Brown, 65, both admitted breaching Regulations 9(1) and 12 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.
They were each fined £6,000, as well as being ordered to pay £1,000 in compensation to Mr Davies, and £2,000 each towards prosecution costs.
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