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A food firm has been fined after a 22-year-old employee had an accident at work causing her to be off work for eight months.

The worker caught her arm in a potato blanching machine at the plant, breaking three bones and dislocating her elbow.

She needed a metal plate in her left arm after the accident at work, which took place at Bakkavor Foods Ltd in Ince.

The company was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,026.

Helen Mansfield, investigating inspector at the Health and Safety Executive, said: "The machine had been operated without a guard for more than ten years, making it almost inevitable that someone would be injured if they came into

contact with the dangerous moving parts."

In other news, a manufacturing company has been fined after a delivery driver was run over by a fork lift truck in an accident at work.

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Posted by M E Dixon
 

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