UK processor Young’s Seafood has been fined £787,500 (€911,427/$1.1 million) by the Grimsby Crown Court after a worker lost his thumb and two of his fingers in a mixing machine accident in October 2017.

Ron Spence, 59, was creating the mix for fish cakes at the company’s Humberstone Road factory in Grimsby when the accident happened.

When attempting to clear the mix from the machine at the end of its run, the worker lifted an interlocked guard that should have stopped the machine from running.