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An 18-year-old man may now choose to make a personal injury compensation claim after a work accident, since the firm with which he was employed has been found liable for his arm injuries.
The incident, which occurred in 2009 at the Brighton meat market in a processing room, resulted in the young man, who was 16 at the time, losing the use of two of his fingers and suffering bone damage and muscle loss. He needed surgery after the accident.
Working unsupervised at a mincing machine due to a lack of staff that day, his arm became caught in the machine's paddles as he attempted to clear the mincer of a blockage.
An investigation into the work accident by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) discovered that the safety interlock on the mincer was often disabled so that a worker could feed the meat and other ingredients into the machine faster.
An inspector for the HSE stated that the young man's unfortunate accident "was completely avoidable" and that "simple measures" could have been taken by the company, which would have prevented the permanent personal injury from occurring.
The company was ordered to pay a fine of £5,000, as well as court costs of more than £4,000 for breaking the Health and Safety at Work Regulations which caused the work accident.
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