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20.02.2024 - 20:03 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Two men working in the factory of a bedding manufacturer had fingers amputated after 'serious and avoidable' incidents, the Health and Safety Executive has said after a prosecution.
Sartex Quilts and Textiles Ltd, based in Rochdale, has now been fined more than a quarter of a million pounds for breaches of workplace health and safety laws. The HSE said both employees were seriously injured during separate incidents at the company's site at Castle Mill, Queensway, near Castleton.
In one incident in March 2020, a clamp on a machine came down, trapping a 32-year-old man's left hand and causing a circular saw to move.
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The saw was stopped by another worker who pressed the emergency stop button, but the HSE said the man had to have three fingers amputated from his left hand as a result. It was his first day working on the line and he had been instructed to clean the measuring wheel on a cutting machine.
He climbed onto the conveyer belt, said the HSE, but the cutting machine had not been properly isolated from all sources of power and the machine's clamp came down.
In a statement, the 32-year-old man from Burnley said: "Prior to this incident, I was a healthy, happy and active person. At the time I had one very young son, now I have two children. I try not to expose my left hand too much to my children when I am playing with them or when they are in my company.
"I do not talk about the incident with my children. When I am out and about in public, I try to keep my injured hand out of the public view."
A second man also working at the site was involved in an incident while operating a quilting machine in October, 2021.
The HSE said the 51-year-old, from
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