Posted on 07/08/2014 5:50:41 AM PDT by 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 . . .
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Knew somebody who lost their daughter in a salsa vat in a similar accident. I think I would lie about how my family member died if they drowned in the salsa vat at work. Just saying.
It has possibilities. It watches. It waits. And then suddenly, a sweet job turns to terror. The machine has mind control powers over the plant supervisor.
Sorry to hear about their loss.
Ah, so they sold out to foreigners. Got it.
They’re leftists and therefore above criticism.
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