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SCA fined after accident

Dec 9 2010  SCA has been fined in the UK after an accident three years ago, when a SCA employee was crushed by a reel of paper.

Dec 9 2010 On 3 December, SCA was found guilty of a breach of UK Health & Safety regulations, fined 120,000 Pounds and ordered to pay full costs of 18,514 Pounds, Tissue News reports.The court ruling followed an accident at the company's site in Oakenholt, Flint, in 2007, where an employee was left paralysed from the chest down after being crushed by a two-ton reel of paper.The man was involved in producing and preparing paper reels. He was using his body weight to slow down a moving paper reel when he slipped. The reel, which was around two metres in diameter, then rolled onto him causing serious crush injuries which left him with paralysis, according to Tissue News.

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