A Riverina abattoir has been hit with a $750,000 fine after a supervisor's foot was severed in a horrific incident involving an unguarded machine, with a judge condemning the company's subsequent treatment of the critically injured worker as "disgraceful" and "heartless in the extreme".

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Hilltop Meats, of Young, was convicted and sentenced in the NSW District Court on September 17 after pleading guilty to a major breach of the Work Health and Safety Act . The breach led to supervisor Dean Spencer suffering a traumatic amputation of his left foot below the knee on October 20, 2021.

The court heard Mr Spencer was attempting to clear a routine blockage in a large screw conveyor, known as an auger, which was used to transport meat meal. He had climbe

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