Nestlé fined £640k after worker’s arm pulled into machinery Nestlé has been ordered to pay more than £660,000 for health and safety failings after a worker’s arm was dragged into a machine.
Bradford Crown Court heard how on 13 February 2016 the employee was injured while working on the production line of Nestlé’s Albion Mills site in Halifax.
The technical operator placed his right hand close to a gap in the machine housing when an emery cloth held in his right hand was dragged into the machine taking his arm with it.
Emergency stop
Unable to reach any of the emergency stop buttons located around the machine from the position in which he was trapped, the employee had to be released from the machine by paramedics. He suffered a double compound fracture to his arm, which required surgery.
Representative image A worker was hurt in a 2016 incident in a UK plant that involved confectionery production equipment.
Food manufacturer Nestle UK was ordered to pay a fine of £640,000 (about $869,000) by a British court for violations of health and safety regulations after a worker was injured by a machine at its Albion Mills plant, Great Britain’s occupational safety regulator, The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced in a release Wednesday.
The court was told that a technical operator at the facility was observing a production machine for After Eight confections on Feb. 13, 2016 when they moved their hand near a gap in the machine housing. The man’s hand was holding an emery cloth, which was dragged into the equipment, injuring his arm.
Nestle UK fined £640,000 after West Yorkshire employee was dragged into After Eight machine CONFECTIONERY giant Nestle UK Ltd has been fined £640,000 and ordered to pay £26,234 in costs after an employee was dragged into a machine on the production line at its site in Albion Mills, Halifax. Bradford Crown Court heard today that the company breached health and safety regulations on February 13, 2016, at the After Eight production machine. While observing the operation, the technical operator placed his right hand close to a gap in the machine housing. An emery cloth held in his right hand was dragged into the machine taking his arm with it.