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Safety Fail: £333,333 Fine After Factory Accident
5 Sep
Summary
- An employee's arm was broken after getting caught in a sausage roll machine.
- The company pleaded guilty to breaching safety regulations regarding machine guarding.
- David Wood Baking Limited was fined £333,333 and ordered to pay £7,644 in costs.
David Wood Baking Limited has been fined £333,333 following an incident where an employee's arm was trapped in a sausage roll machine. The accident occurred on December 1, 2023, when Ribeca Jesuthasan was cleaning the production line at the company's factory. Her arm was pulled into a rotating roller, resulting in multiple fractures.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated and found the company failed to prevent access to dangerous moving parts of the machinery. David Wood Baking Limited pleaded guilty to breaching safety regulations. The company was also ordered to pay £7,644 in costs.
HSE inspector Delcina Burden highlighted that inadequate guarding leads to too many worker injuries annually. She stressed that simple safety measures could have prevented this incident and that courts take health and safety breaches seriously.
