Shropshire steel company in court for worker's broken neck
A Shropshire steel engineering company is due to appear at Shrewsbury Magistrates’ Court today after a worker suffered a broken neck when he got the sleeve of his overalls caught in an unguarded drill bit.
The Health and Safety Executive is prosecuting CRF (UK) Ltd for serious safety failings and not taking measures to prevent access to dangerous moving parts of the equipment at its premises on Soulton Road, Wem, on 6 December 2011.
The 39-year-old man from Shropshire suffered three fractures in his neck and serious cuts and burns on his right forearm.
He was in hospital for seven weeks, went through ten weeks of physiotherapy and was in a neck brace for six months. The left side of his body has been weakened by his injuries.
