The U.S. Department of Justice announced that a company that makes precast concrete panels was ordered to pay $500,000 after pleading guilty to violating a workplace safety standard resulting in the death of a worker.
Zachary Ledbetter, 20, died June 11, 2020, five days after he was crushed in a pneumatic door while working for Fabcon Precast in Grove City.
Ledbetter was a batch operator responsible for operating and cleaning a mixer that poured concrete through a pneumatic door. The mixer had an exhaust valve that, by design, released the pneumatic energy that powered the discharge door to ...
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