§ 50. Mr. THORNEasked the Home Secretary whether he received a report from the factory inspector in connection with an accident to a workman who became entangled in some machinery at the Slough Asphalt Works, Bucks; and whether the machinery was properly protected?
§ Sir J. GILMOURIt appears from the report I have received on this accident that the mixing machine which the workman was operating was fitted with a grid guard, the bars of which were spaced three inches apart. Somehow or another the workman must have got his foot between the bars but how this occurred has not been explained. One of the bars was found after the accident to be so bent as to make an opening six inches wide, but it was stated at the inquest that it was not bent before the accident. I am informed that a new guard has since been fitted with cross bars so designed as to prevent any similar accident in the future.