Big fine after industrial accident at steel manufacturer
Steel manufacturing company Rom has been fined £200,000 after an industrial accident resulted in a worker losing part of a finger.
The 51-year-old worker suffered serious crush injuries to his hand in the incident at Rom's site in Lichfield, Staffordshire, in October 2015.
He had been removing leftover steel from a machine called the Koch Straightener, used for straightening steel wire, when he trapped his hand between the rotating rollers inside the machine.
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