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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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