Health and Safety Executive

Lincoln company fined after worker injured

HSE has warned companies to have safe systems in place for manually handling heavy objects after a Lincoln worker suffered a severe groin injury while moving a 96 kilogram oven. Catering equipment manufacturer Lincat Limited, of Whisby Road, Lincoln was fined  after pleading guilty to breaching Section 2(3) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974*, and contravening two regulations of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.

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