Wednesday, 3 October 2012

TCK Fresh Produce Ltd fined after neglecting worker safety

RNN media information for journalists and the press - Press Releases - Food supplier fined after neglecting worker safety - Regional News Network: A national fruit and vegetable wholesaler has been sentenced for safety failings after a worker lost the tip of her finger at a processing plant in Hayes.

TCK Fresh Produce Ltd, of Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was today (3 October) prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as a result of the incident at its premises on Printing House Lane on 30 October 2010.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard that a 46 year-old worker from Hounslow, who does not want to be named, was using a vegetable slicing machine when it became blocked.

She pressed a stop button and opened a side panel to gain access to a conveyor that took vegetables to the cutting head. As she reached in to clear the blockage, the still-rotating cutting blade caught her right index finger and sliced off the tip to the base of her nail.

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