A 50-year-old steelworker died in June after falling into a scrap-metal pit at the Plainfield, Illinois, processing facility where he worked.
A subsequent federal safety inspection resulted in fines of just under $54,000 for his employer, Coilplus Illinois Inc.
In the early-morning hours of June 23, Carlos Rivera, of Joliet, was standing on a platform at Coilplus removing metal scrap from a scrap pit when the platform disconnected. Rivera fell into the pit and became entangled in metal. The steel baler, a mechanism at the bottom of the pit that crushes and cuts scrap metal, pulled him ...
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