The owner of a Bristol lighting company has today been fined £20,000 after an employee was injured by machinery that was not properly guarded.

Darren Wring, trading as Fineline, based in Clevedon Road, Failand, North Somerset, pleaded guilty to regulation 11(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 at Weston-super-Mare Magistrates Court. He was also ordered to pay costs of £1,800.

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