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Business fined £30,000 after work accident

A fine of £30,000 has been issued to a company whose failure to conduct an adequate risk assessment led to an accident at work which left an employee severely injured.

Natures Way Foods has been fined £30,000 for the work accident plus £16,282 in costs after one of its worker was assigned unfamiliar duties during which her finger was cut off.

A Polish employee at the firm’s Chichester factory was assigned a job cleaning the production line - which her duties had not led her to use before - and was only given brief instructions.

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