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May 5, 2022

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Company fined after employee’s arm was crushed in a conveyor belt

A skip hire company has been fined after an employee sustained crush injuries to his arm.

An employee of Bateman Skips Ltd was asked to repair a conveyor belt feeding the picking station on 30 May 2018, Bristol Magistrates’ Court heard was told. He was injured when his arm was drawn into the mechanism whilst realigning the belt. The employee was rescued by the Fire & Rescue Service.

The HSE’s investigation found that Bateman Skips Ltd failed to ensure that the workforce was provided with adequate training and suitable safeguards for dealing with blockages and adjusting the equipment.

Bateman Skips Ltd of Broadmead Lane, Keynsham, Bristol pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974. The company was fined £50,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,205.80.

Speaking after the hearing, HSE Inspector Berenice Ray, said: “Those in control of work have a duty to assess the risks and devise safe methods of working  to provide the necessary information, instruction and training to their workforce.

“Employers must ensure that the power source of machinery such as this is isolated and physically locked off whenever the guards are removed.”

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Nigel Dupree
Nigel Dupree
1 year ago

Perhaps we need the majority of the 58% of DSE operators suffering debilitating myopic and asthenopic disease / 3D vision loss to scream more as, the eye-strain, vision stress, eye and headaches, migraine, blurred or worse double vision, dizziness, nausea etc, etc, kicks-in impairing performance and productivity if not actually incapacitating them? No worries and carry-on with presenteeism as, just a “temporary injury” and you’ll be alright after a good nights sleep………. Pretty sure if there were 58% of employees experiencing other life-changing, so called, unmitigated accidental injuries that wouldn’t be ignored and placated by getting some cheap FREE PPE… Read more »