date:Jun 29, 2012
so severely it had to be amputated.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that both the hopper and the screw conveyor were unguarded. They had been operated without guards since the machine was bought several years earlier.
Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court heard that the worker, who is now 17, left the bakery company after the accident was working part-time before he started a college plumbing course. Although he missed two months of the course due to the accident, th