Articles On: Workplaces & Industries Across Regions of the UK

Unnecessary Workplace Practice Sees an Employee’s Fingers Severed by a Bandsaw

Posted: 7 September 2022

Posted in: Amputation at Work, Contact with Moving Machinery, Manufacturing, North West England, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury

An employee who replaced and lubricated a bandsaw – a totally unnecessary practice – has had his fingers severed in an accident at work. The worker had replaced the blade of the saw after it had begun to squeal and emit smoke. Whilst applying the lubricant to the new blade with a cardboard tube of wax as it operated, his hand was drawn into the bandsaw. He lost most of his two middle fingers in the injury. An HSE investigation found that the company – Hanson Springs Ltd – had…

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Driver Crushed By Vehicle At Work Suffers Severe Damage To Arm

Posted: 19 August 2022

Posted in: Fractures, Moving Vehicles, The South West, Transport & Storage, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury

During October 2019, an employee of Stagecoach Devon Ltd was crushed by a vehicle in his depot. A culture of complacency cost the man usage of his arm. It had become custom for drivers to reverse without a banksman or rely on other, untrained drivers. Buses would reverse out of the depot to become ready for transporting people. In the top area, where most of the buses were parked, a banksman – the only one for the whole depot – would direct the vehicles out safely. However, due to the…

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Farmer’s 4-Year-Old Nephew Killed in Fatal Telehandler Accident

Posted: 10 August 2022

Posted in: Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing, Fatal Accidents at Work, North West England, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury

Brian Nutter has received a suspended prison sentenced after a preventable telehandler accident killed his young nephew on the family farm. The workplace accident took place in 2019 and involved the young boy – Harry – riding on the footplate of a telehandler. As Brian Nutter turned the vehicle in the field, Harry fell from his position. He was crushed to death under the wheels of the telehandler. HSE’s investigation into the telehandler accident that claimed Harry’s life found a lack of safety measures that were supposed to prevent an…

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Hermes Depot Worker Dies from Crushing Injury Sustained by two Trailers

Posted: 26 July 2022

Posted in: Fatal Accidents at Work, Scotland, Struck by Moving Objects, Transport & Storage

In March 2019, a night shift employee of Hermes’ Motherwell depot was killed after a crushing injury. The accident was caused by being stuck between two loaded trailers, one of which was moving. David Kennedy was crushed in the chest, which lead to a collapsed lung, several fractured ribs, and other serious internal injuries. These chest injuries combined caused Kennedy to lose his life. The fatal accident occurred as Kennedy was moving the loaded trailer backwards through the depot. He was crushed between the arm of the trailer he was…

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Multiple Broken Arm Bones for Manufacturing Employee Working with Machine

Posted: 17 February 2022

Posted in: Contact with Moving Machinery, Manufacturing, Shoulders, Arms, Wrists, Hands & Fingers, Wales, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury

A manufacturer of self-adhesive vinyl and plastic films, Kay Premium Marking Films Ltd, has been fined after a worker suffered a severely broken arm. His hand was caught by two driven rollers, which pulled him further into the machine, causing significant personal injury. The workplace accident happened in summer 2019, when the employee was trying to clean the rollers with the slitter machine, which had glue on it. Due to a lack of guards on the machine, it was accessible to workers whilst it was running, causing the machine to…

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