Midland Steel Reinforcement Supplies (UK) Limited were fined £491,239 (inc.costs) after multiple health and safety failings were found at their site in Bishop Auckland.
The circumstance were:
- In June 2019, an employee was struck and injured by a work piece and suffered an injury to his right hand.
- In July 2019, an agency worker suffered a finger amputation whilst manually removing a piece of metal near the unguarded blade of another machine.
- HSE visited the steel supplies site in 2019 ,finding wholly inadequate management of health and safety.
- An investigation by HSE found the company had failed to prevent access to the dangerous moving parts on both machines. These machines were metal rebar forming machines and had been used at the site for a number of years.
- In addition to the guarding faults, HSE also found the emergency stop and safety devices wired out on one of the machines.
- The machinery risk assessments were substandard.
- Staff were trained to operate the machines in an unsafe manner.
- The company also had a forklift truck in daily use, despite it having defective brakes.
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