£30,000 out of court settlement for loss of finger

A man who lost part of one of his fingers and fractured another after being told to use machinery that was missing a protective guard, has received nearly £30,000 in an out of court settlement. He had only recently started work as a carpenter and was told to use a woodcutting machine with a circular blade. He had only been in the job for two weeks and hadn’t received any training in how to use the machines safely, and wasn’t aware that there should have been a protective guard in place over the blade. He wasn’t able to go back to work for eight weeks and only then on a part-time basis, and when he did return, he was made redundant less than two months later.