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Rotating lathe stem removed worker's fingers
Score (Europe) Limited, based in Peterhead, has been fined £2,500 at Dunfermline Sheriff Court for breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 in the circumstances of an accident in September 2003 in which a female employee sustained a serious hand injury while working on a lathe at its Cowdenbeath, Fife, premises.The accident victim was holding abrasive paper to a rotating part in a gloved hand when it drew her hand in and removed 2 fingers.HSE investigation established that Score had failed to have suitably and sufficiently assessed risks and implemented a safe system of work for the specific activity.
