The employee was repairing a cardboard printing, slotting and forming machine at Diamond Box Ltd’s Shaw Street plant when he placed his foot on an exposed conveyor and was dragged into the machine’s moving parts.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the machinery had a ‘jog mode’ that could have been set up to enable maintenance work to be carried out safely. However, the company has not identified this, trained staff on using it or enforced its use.
HSE inspector Caroline Lane said: “The company relied on the experience of maintenance employees rather than controlling risks through careful assessment and putting safe systems of work in place.”
Diamond Box Ltd, of Hill Top Industrial Estate, West Bromwich, pleaded guilty to a breach of Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 at Wolverhampton Crown Court. It was fined £400,000 with £9886.04 costs.
Fine after worker pulled into machinery
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A West Bromwich packaging manufacturer has been fined £400,000 after a maintenance employee was injured after being pulled into machinery.
