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An Oswestry manufacturing firm has been ordered to pay a fine following an accident claim, after an employee nearly lost a finger.

A worker at Richard Burbidge Ltd cut his middle finger on a machine used to plane wood.

The machine fractured the employee's thumb, in addition to severing both tendons at the top of the first joint.

Pleading guilty to a breach of the UK's work equipment regulations, Richard Burbidge was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £5,842 in costs.

Commenting on the case, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector Grayam Barnes explained: "This employee was extremely lucky not to lose a finger or a hand. Richard Burbidge Ltd should have ensured this piece of equipment, with sharp, fast-moving parts, had safety guards in place."

The case comes after food processing firm Bakkavor Foods was fined after a worker's hand was crushed in machinery at its Bourne plant.

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