An employee of Carrs of Sheffield (Manufacturing) Limited suffered damage to all four fingers on his right hand when it was pulled into an in-running nip. This resulted in his middle two fingers being subsequently amputated.
Sheffield Crown Court heard how, in May 2013, the employee was using a straightening machine for flattening coils of silver when his glove caught on a jagged edge of coil,dragging it into the in-running nip.
Carrs of Sheffield (Manufacturing) Limited was fined a total of £10,000, and ordered to pay £6,445 in costs after pleading guilty to an offence under Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
A silver manufacturing company has been fined for safety failings that led to a worker sustaining serious injury to his right hand.