An Auckland poultry company has been ordered to pay $30,000 to an employee whose thumb was severed while cleaning machinery.
Mainland Poultry Limited was sentenced in the Papakura District Court over the October 2020 incident today.
The company was also fined $200,000.
WorkSafe said the worker's thumb got caught between the edge of an opened access latch and the rotating blade of a screw conveyor which did not have adequate guarding.