BBC News
By Ben King
image captionMohsin (left) and Zuber Issa in Blackburn last year
A company co-owned by the billionaire Issa brothers who are buying Asda was fined for appalling safety breaches, a BBC investigation has found.
One worker lost a finger in a bubble wrap machine in 2012, and another lost four fingers in 2015, weeks after the brothers resigned as directors.
Europlast (Blackburn) Ltd showed a total lack of care about the safety of its employees , according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The brothers declined to comment.
In 2014, the Lancashire packaging firm Europlast (Blackburn) Ltd was fined £50,000 at Preston Crown Court for an incident two years previously, when a worker got a hand trapped between rollers while trying to clean a bubble wrap machine.