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A 63-year-old man from Cambridgeshire has suffered serious personal injuries in a catastrophic work accident.
The man was working for a print and packaging company in Huntingdon when his arm was dragged into the machinery he was working on.
He was fixing a malfunction when the machine, which is used for folding and flattening pharmaceutical packaging, pulled his arm into exposed rollers.
The work accident caused severe crushing to his hand, wrist and arm. The employee had to endure nearly one hundred stitches to repair the damage caused.
Following a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution the company who employed the victim were fined £5,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,521.20.
The HSE inspector explained afterwards that the accident is known as an ‘in-running nip' and occurs when contact is made between two rotating parts of machinery, creating a ‘pulling in' danger. This is a common hazard in printing machinery unless properly safe guarded.
It has not been reported whether the personal injury victim will be pursuing a work accident compensation claim through the civil courts.
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