Rugby, UK – Acenta Steel Limited has been fined £400,000 for a 2016 industrial accident in which a worker’s leg was crushed in the vice of an industrial band saw. An investigation by the local health and safety team discovered that safety guards fitted to the band saw when it was installed at the factory had been…
Read MoreHelena, AL – An employee of ABC Polymer Industries was killed on the job this month. Eva Saenz, 45, was sucked into an industrial machine after getting caught in the roller at the Alabama plastics factory. According to Shelby County Coroner Lina Evans, it appeared that Saenz “was working next to the rollers and bent down…
Read MoreMaumee, OH – Reports of two employee injuries at the Maumee Assembly & Stamping facility have resulted in $211,857 in fines for 10 workplace safety violations. Lack of machine safety training was one of the failures noted at the stamping plant located outside of Toledo. Law firms that specialise in workplace injuries for particularly dangerous…
Read MoreTiffin, OH – Numerous and repeat machine safety violations have been documented at the American Fine Sinter facility, triggering $82,462 in federal safety fines for the auto parts supplier. OSHA inspectors found five major failures in machine safety protocol at American Fine Sinter Co. Ltd, most of which the firm had already been cited for three years…
Read MoreOregon, OH – Proper machine guarding and employee training could have prevented an amputation at the Autoneum North America plant just across the river from Toledo, OH. The auto parts maker is being fined $570,000 after a worker lost his right hand and part of his arm in an industrial accident. Federal investigators report that a…
Read MoreCenter, TX – OSHA has issued fines of more than $263,000 to Tyson Foods after an unguarded conveyor belt in Tyson’s Center (TX) facility caught a worker’s finger and dragged his hand into a deboning machine. The employee’s finger was amputated by the machine when he was trying to remove chicken parts jammed in its conveyor belt.…
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