Company heads prosecuted over hydraulic press injury

Two Leeds-based company directors have been prosecuted after an employee had his fingers crushed in a hydraulic press.

 

The 57-year-old worker, who asked not be named, had the ends of two fingers severed in the incident in April 2009 at Lupton Fabrications Ltd, a metal fabricating company formerly owned by Dennis Brunt and Peter Critchard.

 

During its investigations, The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which is prosecuting the case, found the photoelectric detectors, called... (196 more words)

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