Noodle restaurant fined over fall

Tampopo admitted breaching health and safety regulations

A noodle restaurant has been fined after a chef fell in the kitchen plunging his foot into hot cooking oil.

Tampopo Ltd admitted four counts of breaching health and safety regulations after the accident in December 2006 at the Trafford Centre, Manchester.

The chef suffered serious burns when he fell as he stood on greasy kitchen equipment to clean a canopy above.

At Trafford magistrates, Tampopo was fined £11,500 and ordered to pay £3,084 in costs.

The firm admitted not having safe systems of work for cleaning equipment at high level, using defective ladders and kickstools and not assessing the risks properly.

Councillor Jonathan Coupe said: "This was a particularly nasty accident and the chef's injuries could have been a lot worse."