Federal workplace safety regulators fined a Wisconsin paper mill $119,000 for violations uncovered during the investigation of a fatal accident.
Michael J. Quinlan, 46, was killed in October 2015 when he was caught in a high-speed conveyor belt he was servicing. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Quinlan might still be alive if Cellu Tissue-City Forest LLC had taken proper precautions, including ensuring the belt was powered down and locked out before allowing him to work on the machine.
“This man’s death is tragic and was preventable,” Mark Hysell,...
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