A COMPANY has been fined £500,000 after a teenager lost a finger and badly damaged another following an incident.
The 18-year-old apprentice was using a horizontal bandsaw unsupervised at the time, health and safety bosses have said.
He suffered the serious injuries to his fingers in the incident at Proline Engineering Limited in Worsley, Salford, on November 7, 2022.
One finger was severed completely, while the other was surgically re-attached.
The now-20-year-old has been left with very little movement and nerve damage in the finger.
He was on a work placement with the firm to gain experience in fabrication and engineering. He was just over a month into his stint at the firm when the incident happened.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found he was being taught how to weld.
The process required multiple sections of steel to be available to practice with.
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