HSE Enforcement record

Elite Plastics Limited

Conviction Current · 11 July 2020

Enforcement details

Reference
4760529
Record type
Conviction Current
Action date
11 July 2020
Offence or breach
At the take-off end of a blown film extruder machine a hydraulic arm actuated to unload a full reel of product onto a skip on the floor. At the machine the plastic film was not adequately cut and was gathering in greater quantity, so the operator stepped over the hydraulic arm to attempt to sort out the problem. The hydraulic arm did not discharge the full reel of product on the pallet. It returned to the machine, trapping the employee between the full reel of product and the rotating drive drum. He was unaware of the emergency stop cord positioned above his head. He sustained a crushed kidney and lacerated liver which bled into the abdomen.
Fine
£0
Costs awarded to HSE
£45,000
Offence address
Twyford Road/Elite Plastics LiRotherwas Industrial EstateTwyford RoadHEREFORDHerefordshireHR2 6JREngland
Region
Midlands
Local authority
Herefordshire UA
Industry
Manufacturing
Main activity
22220 - MF OF PLASTIC PACKING GOODS
Type of location
Fixed
HSE group
FODOP8GP34
HSE directorate
Field Operations Division
HSE area
HSE Division
Breach detail IDs
4760529002
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