The local authority was fined £90,000 for health and safety failing after the man operated the machine without formal training.
South Lanarkshire Council has been fined £90,000 for health and safety failings after a worker lost his arm when it became trapped in a road chipping machine.
On the morning of the accident the worker and a colleague were setting up the machine on the B7078 road near Junction 11 of the M74 motorway on the morning of 22 February 2019. The Health and Safety Executive investigation found that the mesh guard intended to prevent access to the rotating auger had not been fixed in place. Expert opinion was that even if the fixings had been attached it was still reasonably foreseeable that they may not be used and therefore a risk could still exist.
They also failed to provide a system of work for the moving and cleaning by hand of any internal components and ensure that the rotating auger had a guard fixed in place to prevent contact with it.
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