This is the moment a worker was caught in a machine, breaking his arm in two places.
The CCTV footage has been released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after Gates Engineering and Services UK Limited was fined £200,000. The 22-year-old, from Newcastle, had only recently started working as a manufacturing operative for the company when the incident occurred on November 12, 2021.
He was undergoing training when he was assisting another worker on the company's 60-metre lathe at the firm's site on Bassington Drive in Cramlington. The man was working at the rear of the lathe when the rubber material he had just applied fell from the steel mandrel. He instinctively reached to grab the material, and at the same time the lathe started, pulling him into the machine. This resulted in his left arm being broken in two places.
