KITCHENER, Ont. – A Cambridge-based manufacturer of towels has been fined $50,000 after a worker suffered hand injuries from running machinery last year. Cambridge Towel Company Inc. pleaded guilty to one occupational health and safety charge and was fined on May 19, Ontario’s Ministry of Labour said in a statement. On May 21, 2014, a worker was wiping the front of a cold pad machine with a sponge while it was running. The sponge or the worker’s glove got caught in the in-running nip created by the two rollers, and one hand was pulled in between the rollers. The employee suffered partial amputation of fingers, as well as bone and tissue damage. Cambridge Towel pleaded guilty to failing as an employer to ensure the proper measures in the regulation Section 75 of Ontario Regulation 851 were carried out. The regulation states that a part of a machine can be cleaned or maintained only when motion that may endanger a worker has stopped and any part that has been stopped and may subsequently move and endanger a worker has been blocked.