Worker Pulled into Bark Remover - Mill Fined $43K

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Pate Lumber Company, Inc., of Carrollton, Ala., and proposed $43,400 in penalties for failing to protect workers from "caught and crush" hazards at the company's saw mill. A Pate employee died at the facility on Feb. 7, after feed rollers at a conveyor caught his clothing and pulled him into a tree bark removal machine. The agency issued 15 serious citations, which included charges of: failure to guard saw blades, rotary knives, belts, pulleys, chains, sprockets and points where raw material enters a mach...