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A major bedding manufacturer has been fined £80,0000 after an employee suffered horrific injuries when his hand was drawn into a machine. John Cotton Group Limited faced legal action following the incident on 9 December 2020 – which resulted in the machine operator having three fingers on their left hand amputated.
The incident occurred due to there being inadeuate procedures in place to allow safe interventions with machiney. Today the company said the incident was a matter of "sincerest regret" and action had been taken to make sure it could never happen again.
The 36-year-old worker, from Wigan, had noticed a fault with the machine at the company's Snuggledown premises in Ashton-in-Makerfield. In an attempt to resolve the issue, he tried to power down the machine to allow access. However, the machine was still moving, and his left hand made contact with dangerous moving parts.
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Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Enforcement Lawyer Radha Vaithianathar told Manchester City Magistrates Court how the man’s fingers were partially severed by the machinery with the remainder having to be surgically amputated at hospital.
An investigation by HSE found John Cotton Group Limited, a leading manufacturer of bedding, had not made adequate arrangements to prevent access to dangerous moving parts of the machine. The company failed to provide a sufficiently robust procedure for powering down the machine to allow safe access. There was also inadequate training, monitoring and supervision of employees for dealing with problems with the machine.
John Cotton Group Limited, of Beaver Court, Lockett Road, Wigan pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) and 33(1) of the
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