Catering and butchers firm fined by court after teenager loses three fingers in workplace accident
A catering and retail butchers has been fined after a teenage worker severed three fingers and partially a fourth while operating machinery that hadn’t been suitably guarded.
LDA Meats Limited were fined £8,000 and ordered to pay costs by Kidderminster Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to breaching work equipment regulations following the incident on July 18, 2020.
The court heard how the 18-year-old man had operating a grinding machine at LDA Meats Limited in Lyndon Business Park in Ledbury in Herefordshire, while mincing some lamb, slipped on the wet floor.
While falling, he put his hand out and into the machine, which caused him to sever his fingers when his hand came into contact with the rotating worm thread in the machine.
