STATEMENT

Pablo and Gabriel, workers at GARDENPOT, SL, reached an agreement with the

Address of your company to cancel it and set up a small sawmill company that would become the supplier of the boards and battens that GARDENPOT, SL needs for the containers for pots and plants that they manufacture in wood.

To set up Pablo and Gabriel their small company, SERRINGA, SL, they took advantage of the sale of an old small sawmill closed due to the retirement of its owner. The sawmill has two wood cutting machines (saw). One of them, older, does not have CE marking. The other, however, does have CE marking. However, neither in one case nor in the other are their instruction manuals preserved, in such a way that the only information received from these two pieces of equipment and other existing ones (such as a pressing machine to manufacture boards, another for plywood boards and another to cantonal) has been limited to what the previous owner and user has verbally transmitted to them, and which has substantially focused on the operation of the machines and the minimum maintenance that he had been doing on each machine. He has also provided them with the telephone number and contact information of the distributor from whom he purchased the most modern sawing machine; not the oldest one, since apparently its manufacturer no longer exists.

Pablo and Gabriel, excited about their new business, have felt completely satisfied to see their two cutting machines working, and without seeking or completing their knowledge of their machines, they have quickly started buying fir logs and manufacturing boards and battens, in principle for his first client GARDENPOT, SL, but also trusting that the commercial action to which Gabriel will mainly dedicate himself, will quickly increase clients and, consequently, orders.

At first everything was going very well. GARDENPOT, SL, as spring approached, had increased the manufacturing of its wood products, and its demand for wood to supply its two factories almost filled the production capacity of the most modern cutting machine at the small SERRINGA sawmill. , SL and the time of Pablo, who is the one who was mainly dedicated to production. Gabriel, for his part, had been getting new clients by promising shorter delivery times than the competition. The result of all this was a considerable number of orders with fast delivery commitments, to such an extent that Pablo and Gabriel had to extend their working hours and sacrifice even weekends. In addition, it was necessary for Gabriel, outside of commercial dedication times, to collaborate in the manufacturing using the old sawing machine.

Due to the high amount of work, the machines worked at full capacity and the necessary maintenance was first delayed, then postponed excessively and sometimes almost disappeared.

About three months ago, Pablo, trying to get more out of his time,

He deactivated the safety device to prevent his hands from entering the cutting area, and he almost cut a finger. Only his speed and not much luck prevented the accident.

Gabriel, who uses the oldest sawing machine whenever he is in the factory, came

checking that after a certain time working with it non-stop, it stopped, being

It was impossible to start it until the machine cooled down . As he stopped earlier each time, investigating inside the machine, he found a thermal sensor close to the motor which was the one that, when a certain temperature was reached, cut off the power circuit. Without thinking twice, the protection system had to be overridden so as not to have to be out of production while the machine cooled down. After a few weeks, between the engine warming up and the nearby sawn wood, a fire outbreak occurred that, thanks to its immediate detection, was quickly put out with a fire extinguisher, without the machine ever breaking down.

Last week Pablo, outside the protection position of the sawing machine, and with his robe unbuttoned, got caught on the conveyor belt of the logs to be cut and if it were not because he was quick to take it off, it would have dragged him. Well, although Gabriel came quickly to Pablo's voices from the office, it was impossible for him to activate the emergency stop, as he could not find it. After searching more carefully, they found that the red mushroom-shaped button that the machine had for its quick stop, firstly, was so dirty that the color could not be distinguished, and secondly, it had been hidden by some boxes that were not in service. some and that they had been there since the sawmill belonged to the previous owner.

Yesterday, Sunday, the last accident so far took place. Due to the laziness in the

review and maintenance of the machines, on the old cutting machine that uses

Gabriel, between the cutting blade having to be too tensioned, and the cutting teeth no longer staying sharp enough, while cutting a log, the cutting blade broke and two of the pieces were thrown out. Since this machine lacks any guard, and Pablo and Gabriel have not provided an external one to protect the operator, one of the pieces hit Gabriel's head, causing a cut that required several stitches.

Based on the available information, it detects the risk factors and determines the most appropriate preventive measures in each case.