A tree surgeon has been sentenced for a health and safety offence after his young worker lost part of a leg in a horrific accident.
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The court was told that Mr Milloy had been tasked with removing a tree stump from a garden where landscaping work was to take place.The machine should have switched off automatically when not attended to, but a safety mechanism had been disarmed so it kept running.