Failure to note risks

publication date: Sep 21, 2011
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A foundry in Stoke-on-Trent has been fined after a man was left with serious injuries after being burned by molten metal. Copper Alloys Ltd was prosecuted after the 28-year-old worker suffered severe burns to his left arm and upper legs when he fell into an unfenced pit, which housed a mould containing molten metal with a temperature of over 900 degrees celsius.


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