A pie factory worker suffered gruesome injuries after getting caught inside a conveyor belt for an hour.
The 31-year-old worker at Outback Pie Company in Townsville was left with multiple fractures to his left arm after getting it caught around a tension roller, the Townsville Bulletin reported.
The staffer was cleaning the machinery on the underside of the conveyor in October 2020 when his sleeve became caught, dragging him in.
A Outback Pie Company factory worker suffered gruesome injuries after getting caught inside a conveyor belt for an hour
The 31-year-old worker at Outback Pie Company in Townsville was left with multiple fractures to his left arm after getting it caught around a tension roller
He required surgery and was in hospital for five days with injuries that left him unable to work for four months.
Magistrate Richard Lehmann found that the company – which makes 45,000 pies, sausage rolls and muffins a day – had a lack of safety measures.
The firm has since changed its safety rules meaning the conveyor belt has to be switched off before it is cleaned.
It pleaded guilty to failing to comply with its primary duty to ensure workers’ health and safety.
Outback Pie Company was fined $55,000 but a conviction was not recorded.