Mercury Specialist Frames Limited, based in Gloucester, was fined £12,057 (inc.costs) after an incident at its site resulted in a worker having his fingers and part of his palm severed.
The circumstances were:
- The accident occurred on an Omga chop saw.
- There were no risk assessments.
- There were no safe systems of work in place and the company failed to provide sufficient information and instruction.
- On 2 August 2016 Petr Jelinek was using this saw when the blade fell onto his right hand, severing the fingers of his right hand above the knuckles.
The HSE inspector said:
“Those in control of work have a responsibility to devise safe methods of working and to inform, instruct and train their workers in the safe system of working. If a suitable safe system of work had been in place prior to the incident, the serious injuries sustained by the employee could have been prevented.”
“Those in control of work have a responsibility to devise safe methods of working and to inform, instruct and train their workers in the safe system of working. If a suitable safe system of work had been in place prior to the incident, the serious injuries sustained by the employee could have been prevented.”
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