| When it comes to food processing equipment, there | | | | the fingers and numbness. In extreme cases, fingers |
| are many health and safety regulations. There are also | | | | can be lost and compensation claims for this have |
| many health and safety regulations that are ignored, | | | | seen five figure sums being bandied about. |
| resulting in accidents and injuries of the digit variety | | | | A woman in the US has made a pretty good income |
| among others. | | | | of fake compensation claims. Her career has been |
| People do some stupid things when it comes to the | | | | brought to an abrupt end recently with the discovery |
| safety of their fingers and thumbs. I've seen that first | | | | of her antics. She claims to have bitten into a workers |
| hand - excuse the pun! My brother in law decided to | | | | amputated finger in her burger in a fast food outlet in |
| adjust the chain of his ride-on lawn mower while it was | | | | California. The bad publicity led to the loss of $2.5 |
| running bringing about the loss of one finger and lo and | | | | million. |
| behold, the following year saw him stick his hand in the | | | | The woman responsible, it was discovered, had done |
| engine of a Land Rover losing another finger. | | | | this before. Other establishments had paid her an out |
| Ok, so we may have multiple fingers where other | | | | of court settlement to avoid bad press even though no |
| body parts are usually limited to one or two but they | | | | workers had reported losing any fingers in food |
| are all there for a reason and we find it very difficult to | | | | processing equipment. You'd think they would notice! |
| manage without. My brother in law couldn't play the | | | | The woman was actually able to produce a real finger |
| piano after losing the first digit and gave up the guitar | | | | that she had purchased for $100 from a construction |
| entirely once the second one was a gonna too. | | | | worker who had it amputated in an earlier accident. |
| Of course, our hands are exposed all the time and this | | | | How she managed this several times, I do not |
| makes them more susceptible to damage. That is | | | | understand. |
| precisely why health and safety regulations are | | | | Does she have a disembodied finger collection? Does |
| implemented and the thought of lost body parts in food | | | | she advertise for amputated body parts? Maybe she |
| processing equipment is a stomach churning thought. | | | | buys them over the internet - god knows, some |
| A plant in the UK that uses food processing equipment | | | | people will sell anything these days! |
| has seen two workers lose digits recently. They claim | | | | Of course, if extra fingers are freely available, it would |
| that the machinery had been reported as faulty | | | | give her a distinct advantage when it came to eating a |
| recently but management had neglected to implement | | | | bag of hula hoops. Even the extra big bags you can |
| repairs. This food processing equipment plant supplies | | | | buy these days, or the multi packs, she could eat them |
| food to major supermarkets and in this age of | | | | in the same time it takes the average person to eat a |
| compensation claims, they surely cannot afford to | | | | small bag! |
| misplace digits. | | | | I'm quite sure the hula hoop manufacturers are |
| Workers who use vibrating machinery in cold | | | | extremely careful when it comes to fingers in their |
| temperatures, as food processing equipment often is, | | | | food processing equipment. After all, what's the point |
| are also liable to the ravages of Vibration White finger. | | | | of advertising food that fits like a ring on your finger if |
| The results are pins and needles, tingling, whiteness of | | | | the staff are a few digits short of a full hand? |