A Welshpool manufacturing company has been fined £100,000 after one of its employees partially severed two fingers while trying to find a fault in a machine.
Interior Products Group Limited – known as Newmor Group Ltd at the time of the incident – manufacture and sell pre-finished fit out products to a variety of sectors.
Wrexham Magistrates’ Court heard how the experienced employee suffered the injuries while checking for debris on the trimming unit of the edgebander. Following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive , it was discovered that although the company had carried out a number of risk assessments on the machine, they failed to identify the hazards presented by the cutting and trimming units from the front of the edgebander.
Interior Products Group Limited of Madocs Works, Henfaes Lane, Welshpool pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. They were fined £100,000 and ordered to pay costs of £7,688.
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