Plastics manufacturer fined for death of worker
Added on: 31/05/2016
A plastics manufacturer from Cambridgeshire has been fined and given a suspended sentence after a worker died after she was crushed by printing machinery.
Peterborough Crown Court heard how a 23-year-old agency worker from Lithuania was working in a print room for Gordon Leach, who trades as RGE Engineering Company.
On 27 April 2012, the worker entered the printing machine to apply thinners to the ink when the machine started. Her head was crushed between the printing pads and the printing table of the machine, fatally injuring her.