JSF Stainless fined after young worker severs fingers

Posted on 9 May 2013 by Tim Brown

West Midlands steel products manufacturer JSF Stainless and its director have been prosecuted for safety failings after a 17-year-old worker seriously injured his hand on a moving saw blade.

The teenager severed the thumb, part of his little finger and all the remaining fingers on his left hand in the incident at JSF Stainless in Brownhills, on 1 June 2011. Walsall Magistrates’ Court last month heard that he was asked to clean a steel cutting saw by company director Richard Lancaster while the blade…

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