Centriforce Products Ltd, a plastics-recycling company in Liverpool, was fined £2,500 after a worker lost four fingers that were cut off by a guillotine.

Wesley Dickinson, 22, got his fingers trapped in the guillotine when he was trying to remove a jam.  Two of his four fingers were reattached by Doctors, but he still has very limited movement in his hand.

Martin Paren, an Inspector at HSE, said: “The Company should have had a guard on the guillotine to prevent workers from reaching the blade. An automatic mechanism should also have been in place so that the power was cut if the guard opened”.