The cleaning hatch of the blender was open, exposing the rotating blade and as the worker started using the machine, three fingers and a thumb on his right hand were amputated.
HSE
Worker crushed in rotating machine
A factory in Ashton-under-Lyne in the UK has been fined £26,000 (approx. $39,500 or €32,000) after one of its workers suffered major injuries when he became trapped in rotating machinery.
The employee was pulled into a 14-foot-high metal-shaping machine when his overalls became entangled. He was working at ADA Machining Services Ltd on Kayley Industrial Estate, Richmond Street, on 2 January 2008.
Lack of guarding causes amputation
A specialist bread manufacturer has been fined by the United Kingdom’s market surveillance authority after a worker was injured by a dough mixing machine and had his finger amputated.