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June 29th 15:48 Health and Safety
The importance businesses should place on health and safety has been highlighted by an incident in Stourbridge.
Prospect Joinery, a carpentry company based in the area has been fined £3,000 and order to pay £1,000 in costs after David Bell seriously damaged his hand using an unguarded machine.
Following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the company pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 at Stourbridge and Halesowen Magistrates court.
HSE inspector John Glynn commented: "Prospect Joinery failed in its role to protect its workers by not properly guarding this machine.
Mr Bell should never have been placed in the position he was, and is now suffering long-term debilitating injuries as a consequence."
The employee lost his right hand index finger, broke his middle finger and was left with severe cuts to other parts of his hand while attempting to feed wood into the machine.
