Worker Buried Alive After Sugar Plant Pulls Safety Device

Newser ^ | June 8, 2014 | Rob Quinn

[Enterprise]

A worker at a Pennsylvania sugar plant died buried alive in sugar in an accident that could have been prevented by a safety device removed just 13 days earlier, a ProPublica investigation finds. Janio Salinas—a 50-year-old who, like every other employee in the CSC Sugar warehouse in Fairless Hills, was a temp worker—died after climbing inside a huge hopper to remove sugar clogs on February 25, 2013. The warehouse manager told the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that he had asked for a safety screen to prevent such an accident, but after one was installed, the plant manager decided to get rid of it because it was slowing down production.

(snip) The death at the plant that supplies the makers of Snapple drinks and Ben & Jerry's ice cream was one of numerous gruesome deaths that spurred OSHA to boost enforcement of rules affecting temp workers . . .

[Enterprise]

I can’t boycott a product I never use anyway.

[NonValueAdded]

This would have never happened if they were using high fructose corn syrup.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Best hourly job I ever had was as a staffer (permanent HR employee) at a temp agency. Was full-time but only worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday (12 hour shifts, though) and was pretty close to six figures to boot.

[Enterprise]

Oops. I didn’t notice it. Now, even I am wondering why Newser printed the article.

[Enterprise]

Nice!

[null and void]

” Janio Salinas—a 50-year-old who, like every other employee in the CSC Sugar warehouse in Fairless Hills, was a temp worker”

Illegals and temp workers. That is how business is done today in America.

I can't help but wonder if this poor man had a limited grasp of English and didn't quite understand the safety requirements of the task.

[2ndDivisionVet]

In April 2000, Ben & Jerry’s sold the company to Anglo-Dutch multinational food giant Unilever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry’s

[DickBrannigan]

Any indication as to Senor Salinas’ immigration status?

[BlueMondaySkipper]

I can’t boycott a product I never use anyway.

Apparently you haven't been paying attention. The left has perfected boycotting things they don't use in the first place. Just get your panties all in a wad through social media and the companies will cave. They have no way to tell if you are an actual customer.

[X-spurt]

On a number of posts it seems to be nostalgia week with “un-recent” stories.

[left that other site]

They sometimes step in it big time.

[left that other site]

Oh OK.

But they still push the liberal agenda, even in the names of their flavors.

[2ndDivisionVet]

That’s their “schtick” which makes them somehow different from Haagen-Dazs and their other competitors in the minds of the sheeple. Why would Unilever goof that up?

[glyptol]

Not to worry there’s more coming in everyday /s

[left that other site]

Well, if i bought a business, and the “schtick” was something i didn’t believe in, I would change it.

That is why I am poor as dirt, I guess. I can’t do something against my conscience just for the money.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Boy howdy!

Report: 300,000 Central American immigrants heading to U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3177195/posts

[plain talk]

Well the Company will be shamed into fixing the safety screw up that led to this death. The family and locals will be demanding explanations on what happened. People should not be buried alive at sugar plants. That’s how the system should work. Self correcting.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Is this the plot for a horror movie (”Attack of the Killer Sugar Plants”) or another bad headline?

[Enterprise]

If he was an illegal alien, his status is now “departed deported.”

[Enterprise]

And that means 300,000 more Americans out of work.