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An employee for a printing firm in Ipswich may make a work injury compensation claim after suffering severe personal injury.
The victim, who was employed as a printer manager, had been attempting to remove a blockage from a conveyor belt underneath a stacking machine when his fingers became caught in the cogs.
As a result the 40-year-old man suffered a fracture to his index finger, lost the nail and part of his ring finger, and had his middle finger amputated at the first joint during the incident.
After the accident he required plastic sugary on his fingers and was not able to return to work for seven months while he recovered.
Following a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation, it was discovered that the machine guard which would have prevented the accident from occurring had been removed.
An HSE inspector stated, "An interlock device that should have turned off the conveyor when the fixed guard was opened had been overridden, which left the machine running with no guard in place. Had the interlock been working, opening the fixed guard would have turned the belt off and prevented the injury."
Moreover, about 20 other safety guards around the factory had also been removed from other machines.
The printing company was fined £7,500 for its breach of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulation, and also had to pay court costs of £8,272.
The victim may now decide to make a work injury compensation claim against his employers.
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