Articles On: Contact with Moving Machinery

Life-altering Crush Injuries at Work Sees Worcester Waste Management Firm Penalized

Posted: 3 October 2025

Posted in: Contact with Moving Machinery, Fractures, Struck by Moving Objects, Waste Management, West Midlands

In the world of waste management, where heavy machinery and tight schedules often collide, safety should always be a top priority. However, a recent incident involving an employee in Worcester has thrown this notion into stark relief. An unfortunate accident at work left one maintenance worker with life-altering crush injuries from a falling loading shovel bucket. This naturally raised serious questions about workplace safety practices within the company. Prompting an HSE investigation into the incident at Blackpole Trading Estate West in Worcester, The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the…

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Durham Waste Firm Employee Run Over by Excavator

Posted: 19 August 2025

Posted in: Contact with Moving Machinery, Fractures, Moving Vehicles, North East England, Waste Management

A waste management company in County Durham has received a fine following an incident where a 24-year-old employee was run over by an excavator. The company, Farm XS (Northern) Limited, was sentenced for the occurrence on January 29, 2024. The incident occurred while the employee was performing his duties, which involved sorting and moving waste materials at the site in close proximity to dangerous vehicles. According to reports, he was hit from behind by the excavator and subsequently run over. As a result, he sustained fractures to both of his…

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Rail Worker Crushed to Death Whilst Cleaning Machine

Posted: 18 August 2023

Posted in: Contact with Moving Machinery, Fatal Accidents at Work, Transport & Storage

In late November 2020, Kevin Mauger was crushed to death whilst maintaining a machine at Network Rail’s Long Welded Rail Depot around Eastleigh – near Southampton. Mauger’s task was to clean the interior of a butt-welder. A butt-welder is takes two sections of rail track and welds them together. Whilst under the impression the machine was safe to clean, a section of track was shifted into the machine with Mauger inside. He was crushed to death by six tons of rail track. The conveyor system of the machine was on…

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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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Employee Found Fatally Injured by Side Loading Forklift Truck

Posted: 13 April 2022

Posted in: Contact with Moving Machinery, Fatal Accidents at Work, Manufacturing, Workplace Accidents Resulting in Injury, Workplace Personal Injury

A manufacturing company, Cutting Edge Trading Ltd, has been fined after their employee, Mitchell Poutney, was fatally injured when a forklift truck crushed him. An HSE investigation into the fatal injury caused by workplace machinery found that the forks which crushed Poutney were unsupported. They also observed that there was no safe working system in place for unloading pallets from the side-loader forklift truck. Meaning, other employees could potentially suffer from similar accidents at work. As Poutney had been working underneath when the loaded goods caused the forklift truck’s carriage…

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