Gates Engineering and Services UK Limited was fined £200,000 after worker fractures arm in industrial accident
The 22-year-old was undergoing training when he was assisting another worker on the company’s 60-metre lathe at the firm’s site on Bassington Drive in Cramlington.
The man was working at the rear of the lathe when the rubber material he had just applied fell from the steel mandrel.
He instinctively reached to grab the material, and at the same time the lathe started, pulling him into the machine. This resulted in his left arm being broken in two places.
Gates Engineering & Services UK Limited pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
The company was fined £200,000 and ordered to pay £3,653.70 in costs at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on 4 May 2023.
