Crushed to the bone: Worker gets hand stuck in coconut husking machine

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Rescue services and hospital medics rushed to a factory after a worker got his left hand trapped in a coconut husking machine. 

 

On the ground floor of a factory where coconut is processed they found 25 year old Natthaphon Thippayut in agony with his hand crushed to the bone in the machine. 

 

Phra Nakorn Sri Ayuthaya hospital stall gave him painkillers as equipment was used to extricate the victim.

 

It took half an hour before he was taken to hospital. 

 

Factory owner Itthidech Khongman, 39, told Sanook that Natthaphon was working alone and should have had another person to help him. 

 

He blamed lack of proper rest on behalf of the worker.

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-10-09

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Factory owner Itthidech Khongman, 39, told Sanook that Natthaphon was working alone and should have had another person to help him. 

Hmm, but obviously not the factory owner's fault for not ensuring there was someone else.

 

Wasn't there a similar accident to this only a week or two ago? Someone had their had stuck in a machine - was it in Chonburi?

 

Safety and common sense in the workplace doesn,t exist here unfortunately.....

Scum boss, no safety guards in place to protect against stupidity either.

SAFETY is a 6 letter word, forbidden in almost all THAI operations. If it's SAFE is makes work slow, thereby costs more.

9 hours ago, petermik said:

Safety and common sense in the workplace doesn,t exist here unfortunately.....

Painting with the usual broad brush?

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Factory owner Itthidech Khongman, 39, told Sanook that Natthaphon was working alone and should have had another person to help him. 

 

 He blamed lack of proper rest on behalf of the worker.

 

Sorry, but in my book that puts you, the owner, fully responsible for this poor man's accident. I know health and safety regulations in the U.K. for example, place a lot of emphasis of responsibility on the workers themselves. However, they are also protected by labour laws which are either non existent here, or at the very least not enforced. Hope he makes a recovery from his injuries.