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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Lifelong injury sustained at work 'could have been prevented'  A firm has been fined after a worker suffered an accident in the type of incident that sees people seek advice from a personal injury lawyer in Southampton. The employee, who asked not to be named, needed a metal plate in her arm after it was trapped in a potato blanching machine at a Wigan factory. She suffered a dislocated elbow and three broken bones following the incident in June 2010. Bakkavor Foods was fined £10,000 after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found it had failed to ensure dangerous parts on the machine were guarded. The company has since installed a simple mesh guard over the rollers, allowing them to be cleaned without the risk of workers' arms being dragged in. Helen Mansfield, investigating inspector at the HSE, said the employee suffered a "lifelong injury that could easily have been prevented". "Sadly the machine had been operated without a guard for more than ten years, making it almost inevitable that someone would be injured if they came into contact with the dangerous moving parts," she added. Manufacturing remains a dangerous industry, accounting for nearly 5,000 serious injuries and 34 deaths every year. Posted by Paul Stevens 
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