02Aug 2022
A company has been fined after multiple health and safety failings were found at a site in Bishop Auckland.
Acting on concerns raised, HSE visited the steel supplies site in 2019, finding wholly inadequate management of health and safety. It also came to light that two workers had been injured on separate occasions whilst operating machinery at the premises. 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.
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