Young worker lost arm in waste-screening machine

摘要

A 20-year-old worker had to have his left arm amputated after it was drawn into an unguarded piece of machinery at an organic-waste composting factory in Northern Ireland. A court heard that the shovel driver had been loading organic waste into a screening machine on 29 June 2010 at Natural World Products in Keady, Co. Armagh. During his daily check routine, he had noticed a twig underneath the conveyor of the screener. However, when he reached in to try to remove it, his left arm was dragged into the machine and came into contact with an unguarded rotating conveyor drum. His injuries were so severe that the arm had to be amputated.