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St Helens · Warrington Magistrates Court
An experienced machine operator with 11 years in the role was cleaning the rollers of a machine that embosses tissue paper at the company's site in St Helens. The operator's right hand was drawn in and trapped for several minutes. The machine had no interlocked guard, so employees could reach the moving print rollers while it was running.
Injuries: The worker lost the little and ring fingers of the right hand, had the index and middle fingers partly amputated, and has increased sensitivity in the hand.
Regulation 11(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
“This avoidable incident led to an experienced employee suffering life changing injuries.”
Fit interlocked guards to any machine with exposed moving rollers, so nobody can reach them while it is running, including during cleaning.
The machines, packs and quizzes that fit this kind of site.