22/02/2011 - Factory workers seriously injured
The owner of Cranswick Convenience Foods has been prosecuted for safety failings which led to two workers being seriously hurt at a factory in Barnsley.
One employee, 32-year-old James Hardcastle, had to have his left hand amputated after it became trapped in the blades of a tenderiser. Another unnamed worker severed two fingertips on one of his hands while using a machine which seals packaging onto food. Both accidents occurred within a couple of months of each other at Cranswick's factory in Valley Park Industrial Estate, Wombwell, and both happened because of faulty safety guards.
Health and safety inspectors said both accidents could easily have been avoided if parent firm Studleigh-Royd had followed the law. The Hull-based firm admitted breaking regulation 11(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.
Magistrates in Barnsley fined Studleigh-Royd £8,000 for the first accident and £6,000 for the second one. They also ordered it to pay the prosecution's costs of £8,387.
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