An employee almost severed his arm when cutting wood on an industrial saw he had barely been trained to use, a court heard today.

Daniel Gaskin, 28, a furniture assembler from Burnham-on-Crouch was working at Machine Hire Ltd, on the Burnham Business Park when the incident happened on 17 March 2010.

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