A Tauranga company has been fined $25,000 and ordered to pay $10,000 reparation after one of its workers suffered a dislocated and crushed right wrist in the clamp of a metal folding machine.
Roof Manufacturers Limited, trading as Roofman, was sentenced in Tauranga District Court yesterday, after earlier having pleaded guilty to a charge of being an employer which failed to take all practical steps to ensure the safety of its employee.
The breach of the Health and Safety in Employment Act attracts a fine of up to $250,000.
The injury to the male worker happened at Roof Manufacturers Limited's Birch Avenue premises on July 30 last year.
The court was told as a male worker operating a Hayes International MW Folder machine which is used to fold and cut sheet metal stopped it to talk to colleague, the victim standing at the other end of the machine placed his hand under the camp to clear out some debris.