A leading workwear company has been fined £400,000 after an employee had the skin ripped off the palm of her left hand.
Sharon Chaplin, 51, was working an evening shift for Johnsons Textile Services Limited at the company’s site in Burbage, Hinckley on 16 December 2021.
The mother of two, from Barwell in Leicestershire, was trying to manually clean a sensor to initiate movement of a conveyor belt, but as she did so, her left hand was drawn into a gap where two conveyor belts meet.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Johnsons Textile Services Limited had inadequately guarded machinery, did not have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for the machinery which had caused the injury, and also had inadequate health and safety management systems in place.