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Alloa bottle makers fined £600,000 after molten glass and hot water scalds worker
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In February 2024, the 32-year-old employee was operating a shovel loader, clearing waste molten glass and hot water from the basement floor at the O-I Glass facility.
However, there was no protective door on the cab of the vehicle, so some of the materiel spilt on the worker, burning 8% of his body.
HSE said the “avoidable ordeal” need not have happened if a protective door had been fitted to the vehicle.
The company was fined £600,000 at Stirling Sheriff Court on September 23, after admitting breaching health and safety legislation.
HSE“In this case the protective door was not suitable to protect against impacts from hot and molten glass and therefore was often broken and in the end never replaced.