Outdoor advertising giant prosecuted for safety failings following serious injury in Bristol

Outdoor advertising giant prosecuted for safety failings following serious injury in Bristol: Outdoor advertising company Clear Channel UK Ltd has been fined after an employee's hand was caught in a petrol-powered lawn mower in Bristol.

In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Bristol Magistrates Court today (20 August) heard that the maintenance worker was working at a billboard site on Bath Road on 22 August last year when the incident happened.

The worker, from Gloucestershire, who does not want to be named, sustained serious injuries to his left hand when he tried to clear a blockage from the petrol-powered mower, which he believed had been turned off.