Photo: Coolife In the early 20th century, the hand-cranked Berkel slicer was the state of the art for turning a hunk of cured meat into paper-thin petals of flavor. Funny thing is, those prewar ...

A MEAT factory worker who cut a chunk off his hand in a ham slicer while chatting with a co-worker was "the author of his own misfortune", a court heard. Monday, 8 April 2024 ePaper ...

Dutch butcher and inventor W.A. Van Berkel designed the first meat slicer in 1898, with a hand-cranked flywheel and gears system. Dutch butcher and inventor W.A. Van Berkel designed the first meat ...

A jury has awarded more than $1.6million to a Pennsylvania woman who badly injured her right hand when a meat slicer fell and cut it. Tanya Fuller was working for Northeast Commercial Sharpening ...

Eight weeks on and the 23-year-old factory worker has regained feeling in his entire hand. Lawrence was operating the meat slicer at work when he accidentally severed his hand below the thumb.