Fine after worker has finger crushed by 40 tonne press

A Suffolk company has been fined after an employee’s finger had to be amputated after it was crushed by a 40 tonne power press.

Magistrates sitting at Bury St Edmunds heard press operator Peter McCormick was using a metalworking power press at solenoid manufacturer H.E. & B.S. Benson Ltd in November 2008.

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