Teenager’s Panel Saw Injury Costs Firm £33,700

A Cornish timber frame manufacturer has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £13,700 in costs after a teenage worker severed part of his hand while operating a vertical panel saw on which he had received little training.

 The court heard how the worker, 18 years old at the time of the incident, was using the panel saw to cut a piece of board, which he was holding steady with his left hand. As he operated the saw his hand got dragged into the blade and the top half was cut off.  Although surgeons were able to reattach part of his hand, he has regained very little use…