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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Sweet firm fined by HSE  A confectionery manufacturer has been fined after one its workers suffered a severed finger at work. Tangerine Confectionery was ordered to pay £3,400 in fines and £4,568 in costs after a 25-year-old employee got his hand pulled into a sweet making machine, severing his index finger to the top of his knuckle. Blackpool Magistrates' Court heard how the employee removed the machine guard to clear a blockage when his hand got caught within the rotating wheels that flatten sweet mixtures. The man needed five months away from work to recover from his injuries and doctors were unable to reattach the end of his finger because his nerves were crushed. Anthony Banks, the investigating inspector at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said: "The risk of injury from these types of machines is well known in the industry and Tangerine Confectionery has since installed a new guard over the machine which cuts the power as soon as it is lifted." Printing firm Ancient House Press was recently fined by the HSE after one of its employees suffered a similar injury to his fingers while operating an unguarded stacking machine. Posted by Paul Stevens 
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