Companies are being reminded of their duty to protect their workforce, especially workers from other countries, after a migrant worker employed at a pet bedding company suffered serious injuries in a shredder.

Snowflake Animal Bedding Ltd, which is based in Ashton-under-Lyne, but has a manufacturing plant in Boston, Lincolnshire, was fined £13,300 and ordered to pay full costs of £8,655.16p at Boston Magistrates’ Court today, Monday 22 June, after pleading guilty to breaching section 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

The company was also fined £3,400 after admitting breaching Regulation 9 (1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 for failing to ensure employees had adequate training for driving fork lift trucks.

Source: HSE