Articles On: Amputation at Work
Accidents resulting in amputations at work
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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