A man has told how he has been left in daily pain after two of his fingers and a thumb were sliced off in a Vape packaging machine. The 43-year-old says he can no longer do many daily tasks and cannot even prepare eggs for his children following the accident as he tried to clear a blockage in a packaging machine.
As he removed the plastic which was causing the problem it freed the blades which then sliced through his hand. This led to the amputation of two of the worker’s fingers (index and middle) and thumb on his right hand after it became apparent they could not be reattached, said the Health and Safety Executive.
Now the vape liquid manufacturer VN Labs Ltd has appeared in court where it admitted breaches of the Health and Safety at Work act. It was fined £180,000 and ordered to pay £7,490.05 in costs following a hearing at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
