Firm fined £8,000 after worker's hand crushed
A METAL recycling firm has been fined £8,000 after a worker's hand was crushed by a machine as he tried to clear a blockage.
A County Durham engineering firm has been fined £100,000, and ordered to pay £44,000 in costs, after a worker was crushed to death while clearing a jam on a production line, after pleading guilty to breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.