Brick Manufacturer Cited after Worker Crushed to Death

OSHA has cited a brick manufacturing plant in Endicott for three serious safety violations after a worker there was fatally crushed in a machine. Endicott Clay Products faces $15,300 in proposed penalties stemming from the June 16 incident, OSHA said in a news release on Wednesday. According to OSHA, the 41-year-old worker was crushed by a brick-setting machine as he was retrieving bricks from a kiln. The machine did not have required safety guards installed, OSHA said. In addition, OSHA inspectors found inadequate safety guards on belts, exposing workers to operating parts of machinery, an...