A manufacturing firm has been slapped with a hefty fine after a worker was injured when they fell from the top of a machine.
The man, a contractor for Stockport-based Manufax Engineering Limited, was left with a fractured right elbow, two fractured ribs and two pelvis fractures after plunging nearly four metres.
Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that the worker was carrying out a maintenance task on top of the machine at the time of the incident on July 30, 2020.
The Correa machine had an access gantry to reach the top and the task meant the man had to step outside the gantry to reach a particular part of the machine.
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