Lack of guarding causes broken arm and £194,000 fine during commissioning

Sovex Limited, a Wirral based company, was been fined £194,000 (inc.costs) after a worker’s arm was injured in machinery.

The circumstances were:

• Sovex were installing a new conveyor belt system at the UK Mail site in Coventry.
• There were a lack of effective guarding and isolation procedures on the machinery.
• On 21 January 2016 an installation engineer of Sovex was commissioning the machinery.
• His arm was pulled into the machinery.
• The arm was fractured.