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Nov 24, 2023 | business-live.co.uk | Manufacturing Callum Parke |Callum Parke |Tom Pegden

Frozen chip giant McCain Foods has been fined £700,000 after an employee had to have parts of two fingers removed following an accident at a factory in Lincolnshire. Tom Matthews, from Grantham, had part of his left index and middle finger amputated after the incident on September 2, 2019. He had been cleaning a batter system machine when his hand was drawn into it at the firm’s factory in Easton, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said.

Sep 29, 2023 | business-live.co.uk | Callum Parke |Tom Pegden |Manufacturing Callum Parke

The company that owns a quarry where a man was fatally crushed has expressed its condolences to his family and said it has taken steps to rectify the issues that caused his death. Luke Branston, 26, was working as an external contractor when he was trapped between a feed hopper he was repairing and a conveyor at the Mountsorrel Quarry in Leicestershire on June 21, 2017.