RNN media information for journalists and the press - Press Releases - Safety failings led to farm worker's injury - Regional News Network: A Lincolnshire farmer and an agricultural machinery supplier have been fined after a young casual worker had three tendons in his right hand severed by a potato crusher.
The 25 year-old man, who does not wish to be named, had been working for farmer Timothy Dean, 55, at Waterloo Farm, Wilsford, Sleaford, to help with the potato harvesting, on 15 June 2009.
Grantham Magistrates’ Court was told that a potato crusher, designed and built by Grimme (UK) Ltd, had been fitted on the potato harvester but had no guard in place to protect workers against dangerous moving parts.
On the first day of using the crusher it kept getting blocked with stones. The team decided that each time a stone got stuck, they would signal the harvester driver, who would isolate the power on the machine, and the workers would reach into the crusher and knock the stones out using a lump hammer.
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