The injured person was employed as an apprentice machinist. It was his first week of his apprenticeship with the company. The injured employee was standing beside a metal lathe observing the work being performed on the lathe by his foreman/tradesman, when he was instructed by the foreman to go to the rear side of the lathe and remove a drive belt that was connected from a single phase motor pulley wheel to a pulley wheel on the lathe. While carrying out this task the employee's fourth finger on his left hand was dragged along the moving belt and trapped/jammed between the belt and the steel pulley wheel of the single phase motor requiring the top section of that finger to be surgically amputated. The defendant pleaded guilty.
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