Catering company fined for groin injury
29th, August 2008
A catering company has been fined more than £19,000 for an intimate injury.
The Lincolnshire Echo reported that industrial catering equipment manufacturer Lincat Ltd has been fined £19,400 and ordered to pay £4,845 costs for health and safety flaws.
Rolf Cinavas, an oven assembler suffered a groin injury and was unable to work for nine weeks after moving a 96kg pizza oven without mechanical lifting gear.
He and his supervisor were moving five ovens from a waist-high assembly bench down to pallets in the floor.
The company admitted breaching Section 2(3) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 by not having a clear health and safety policy statement and to contravening the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
Lincat has changed its working practices since the incident.
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