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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has successfully brought a case against a manufacturing company after an accident at work led to a man suffering crush injuries to his arm.

David James was feeding metal sheeting through machinery at a workshop in Wareham when the incident occurred.

Aden Pro Farm was prosecuted and fined £15,000 after Bournemouth Crown Court heard how Mr James was instructed to manually feed the sheets through a press brake, despite the equipment being designed not to require this.

His arm was in a six-inch gap when the machine accidentally started and it became trapped as the aperture closed.

HSE Inspector David Bell stated: "Mr James has suffered significant pain and has had to leave the metal fabrication industry.

"Dangerous practices such as this must be stopped before other serious injuries, or a fatality, result."

The news comes after The Original London Sightseeing Tour Limited was prosecuted following an incident that saw an employee suffer a broken pelvis and several broken ribs when a bus crushed him.

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