A packaging manufacturer has been fined £50,000 after a
father-of-three suffered fatal head injuries while working on a
machine.
Clive Hall, 50, from Denton in Tameside, was carrying out
maintenance work on the 'cut and crease' machine at the Glossop
Carton and Print Ltd's factory in Padfield when it was accidentally
switched on.
Birmingham Crown Court heard Mr Hall was killed instantly when
bars that move cardboard through the machine struck him in the
incident in 2006.
The company was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) following an investigation into the
work accident.
At an earlier hearing at Chesterfield Magistrates' Court on 21
May 2010, Glossop Carton and Print Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching
Sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act
1974 by putting workers at risk. The firm was fined £50,000 with
£76,150 costs.