Alliance Group has been fined more than $330,000 after a worker lost their fingertips and had to drive themselves to a Southland hospital for treatment. At the Invercargill District Court today, the co-operative was sentenced in relation to the January 2018 incident, which happened while the person was cleaning the mincer box of a beef boning machine at the co-operative's plant in Southland. Alliance was ordered to pay a fine of $331,821 and reparation of $10,000. A subsequent WorkSafe investigation found the lid of the mincer box was not secure and the worker was not adequately trained to operate the machine. Last year, Alliance Group was fined $332,000 after a worker had their hand amputated on machinery used for dehydrating blood into powder.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 06, 2019 06:00 UTC