HSE inspector Stacey Gamwell said Samworth Brothers Ltd, which owns Ginsters, Soreen and West Cornwall Pasty Co. brands,”should have known better”.<\/p>\n
She said: “This was a wholly avoidable incident which could have resulted in even more serious consequences.<\/p>\n
“If Samworth Brothers Ltd had properly risk-assessed the task, they would have identified the need for proper controls for working at height, as well as robust isolation and lock-off procedures, including supervision and monitoring to make sure those procedures and controls were properly enforced.<\/p>\n
“Their failure led to severe and painful scalding injuries which should never have happened.<\/p>\n
“The result handed down should serve as a warning to employers; when it comes to keeping people safe, HSE won’t hesitate to take action against firms which fall short.”<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Samworth Brothers Ltd said it launched an “extensive internal review” after the men were injured. <\/p>\n
As a result “several changes” were made to improve its health and safety systems and “processes in this area of work across our business”, they added.<\/p>\n
A statement from the company said: “The health and safety of our colleagues is our most important priority, and we are very sorry that this incident happened.<\/p>\n
“It is important to learn from these events.<\/p>\n
“Immediately after the accident we launched an extensive internal review to fully understand what had happened.<\/p>\n
“As a result of this internal investigation several changes were made immediately to further improve upon our health and safety systems and processes in this area of work across our business.<\/p>\n
“In addition, we co-operated very closely\u202fwith the Health and Safety Executive on their own investigations.”<\/p>\n
The company of Chetwode House, 1 Samworth Way, Melton Mowbray, was ordered to pay \u00a35,834 in prosecution costs, in full, and a \u00a32,000 victim surcharge at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court.<\/p>\n
The company was also ordered to pay \u00a36,000 in compensation to the injured employee. All sums are to be paid by 4 January 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HSE inspector Stacey Gamwell said Samworth Brothers Ltd, which owns Ginsters, Soreen and West Cornwall Pasty Co. brands,”should…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}