Company directors fined GBP 2k over accident at work

02/09/2010

Two company directors from Leeds have been fined a total of GBP 2,001 after one of their employees was involved in an accident at work.

Two of the 57-year-old worker's fingers were crushed when he got his hand stuck in a hydraulic press in April 2009.

He was working for Lupton Fabrications Ltd, a metal fabricating company formerly owned by Dennis Brunt and Peter Critchard, at the time of the incident.

The two former directors, who now run Stealsafe Ltd, were ordered to pay GBP 250 in costs as well as the GBP 2,001 fine.

Health and Safety Executive inspector Angus Robbins said: "This incident is unacceptable, this employee lost his fingertips but he could have lost most of his hand and suffered severe injury."

Last month, Formica Ltd was fined GBP 8,000 after a man lost some of his fingers in an accident at work.

Gary Burke's glove had become caught in a machine and his hand was drawn between two metal guide rollers.

Posted by Wayne Weir

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