A worker suffered a broken arm, required stitches and skin grafting after an accident involving a bar drawing-line machine. In order to alter the air pressure regulator the employee accessed the machine enclosure, leaned over the conveyor and as he did so his arm slipped causing the travelling metal bars which he was trying to align, went through his arm.
He had to protect himself from further injury using his other hand until his colleague shut down the machine.
The company had a full risk assessment in place which identified workers were able to access moving parts of the machine but had failed to implement any controls to prevent harm.
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