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Company fined after employee suffers hand injuries
4th February 2010 | Warning Signs
Safety signs could have prevented a food employee from suffering hand injuries during the cleaning of a cooling conveyor.
The 22-year-old man trapped his hand in the machine after cleaning a part that had no guarding of an in-running nip. The cooling conveyor was running and the individual sustained bad injuries to his hand.
Baked Snacks Co, which is based in Middlesbrough, was fined £2,400 following a hearing at Teesside Magistrates Court.
Bruno Porter, a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector, said the machine should have had better guarding.
"This was a straightforward case of the company failing to address the risks arising from normal operation of this food factory," he commented.
"Simple, standard guarding of a dangerous piece of machinery should have been in place to prevent this nasty accident."
The incident, which took place in October 2008, also resulted in the Baked Snacks Co paying £2,000 court costs.
Baked Snacks Co's factory is located in the company's five-acre site, where it produces a range of sweet and semi-sweet biscuits, baked snacks and crackers.
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