Car components company prosecuted after work accident
Personal Injury 08 Jul 2011
South Walls Magistrates Court has prosecuted a global car components manufacturer after a
work accident saw a member of staff damage their finger.
ThyssenKrupp Tallent Ltd, of
Aycliffe Trading Estate, Darlington admitted that it had breached Regulation 11(1)(a) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, as well as Regulation 3(1) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
As a result, the firm was fined
£16,000 and made to pay costs of
£5,972.
The work accident happened on August 24th 2010 at the company's
Cannock site when an agency worker, who has not been named, was welding nuts on to car parts with a machine, when one of her fingers was trapped between one part of the machine and an electrode.
This woman subsequently spent four months off work and suffered pain while she was recovering.
A work accident where a man lost two fingers has recently resulted in
Swancote Foods, of March,
Cambridgeshire, being fined
£10,000.
Published by Hannah Carr
