Machine Crushed Fingers
An inadequately guarded Multivac packing machine allowed an employee to crush her fingers after she inserted them into a dangerous zone of the machine as she attempted to clear a blockage.
Tulip Ltd of Warwick Technology Park admitted failing to prevent access to dangerous parts of the machinery and failing to make a sufficient risk assessment of it at its Norfolk site. The defects in the guarding had been identified in the company's own safety audit reports but nothing was done about them.
The company was fined £65,000 and ordered to pay costs of £29,523.