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Billingham and Hartlepool, County Durham · Teesside Magistrates' Court
An employee's fingers were severed when rotary valve blades were not properly isolated from the power supply during a machine start-up between cleaning operations. Less than three months later, at a different site, another employee was struck by a forklift truck whose driver's view was obscured by the load being carried.
Injuries: Four fingers severed in the first incident; the second employee was struck by a forklift truck.
Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (two breaches)
“Workplace transport and machinery guarding incidents continue to have life-changing consequences for those who are simply carrying out their day-to-day jobs.”
Machinery must be properly isolated before intervention, and forklift operations need segregation or clear sightlines where loads obscure the driver's view.
The machines, packs and quizzes that fit this kind of site.