A food processing company in Nottinghamshire has been fined by the HSE after a worker was seriously injured.
has been fined £20,000 following a "preventable" incident in which a worker's arm was dragged into machinery and partly crushed.
The hopper door had been opened to allow the debris to drain from the auger - a rotating metal screw. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found that the hopper's access panel door could "be opened freely" whilst the auger was moving, and that no controls were in place to prevent it being opened.
Belwood Foods Limited, based in Henley-on-Thames, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
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