Machinery Fatality Prompts Inspection & Fine

U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced yesterday that it has fined Progressive Processing, Inc., of Elyria, Ohio, $288,250 for failing to protect workers from a variety of safety and health hazards. OSHA opened an inspection at Progressive Processing on April 9 following a fatality in which an employee's clothing became entangled in the rotating parts of machinery. OSHA's investigation not only found willful violations of machine guarding regulatory standards, but also determined that the steel processing firm failed to protect against employe...