Animal feed manufacturer fined after employee’s arm severed

Animal feed manufacturer fined after employee’s arm severed

The Health & Safety Executive (“HSE”) reported recently that an employer had been fined more than half a million pounds after one of its employee’s lower arms was severed when it became entangled in a conveyor. The employee worked as a blender operative and was trying to clear a blockage in a machine that was prone to suffering these blockages in the few months that it had been in operation. In the process of clearing the blockage the employee’s…