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Representative image The company was fined $269,000 for safety lapses that led to the 2017 incident at its Kingston upon Hull site.
Hygiene and health products manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare (UK) Ltd was issued a fine of €200,000 (about $269,000) in a British court this month for safety violations related to the injury of a worker at one of its facilities in 2017, Great Britain’s workplace safety regulator, The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) announced in a recent release.
The Grimsby Magistrates Court was told that a 25-year-old worker’s left forearm was crushed by a bottle filling machine at Reckitt Benckiser’s facility in Dansom Lane South, Kingston upon Hull. In addition to the crush injury, the man also received tendon damage on his forearm, wrist and hand.