A sawmill company has been fined 231-thousand dollars after a worker lost most of his hand in a machine
A sawmill company has been fined 231-thousand dollars after a worker lost most of his hand in a machine
4 September 2020
Taranaki Sawmills Limited has been sentenced at the District Court in New Plymouth for failing to ensure the machinery was safe.
The worker lost three fingers and two thirds of his palm in 2018, after putting his arm in a finger-jointing machine to try to fix a jam.
WorkSafe found there was no effective guarding or emergency stops on the machine.
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