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Worker's hand pulled in to a machine and nailed to a pallet

Pontrilas Timber & Builders’ Merchants Ltd was fined £3,500 and ordered to pay £8,973 costs at Hereford Magistrates Court.

The employee was operating an automatic wooden pallet making machine when the incident happened. The machine started unexpectedly, drawing the man’s right hand in and trapping it beneath a beam of nailing hammers. It then nailed the man’s hand and wrist to the top of a pallet. There was no guard or protective device across the front of the machine to prevent access to dangerous moving parts of the machinery.

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