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A flooring company has been prosecuted after failure to attach guarding to a machine led to an employee suffering an accident at work.

Weldon Contract in Norwell was fined £6,000 and ordered to pay £4,773 costs at Nottingham magistrates after the Health and Safety Executive brought a claim against the firm.

It followed an incident in which employee Paul Murdoch sustained a puncture to his arm, after a 90cm piece of walnut wood splintered when he was using a circular ripsaw and punctured his arm.

Inspector Lorna Sherlock described how the company "failed" Mr Murdoch as it allowed the machines to be used when it was "wholly unsuitable for deep cutting as it cannot be carried out without first removing the guards and riving knife".

Elsewhere, SIG Manufacturing was recently fined after staff member Hugo Valdes lost parts of three fingers when his left handed became trapped between two heated platens in door press.

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Posted by M E Dixon

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