Blog Post #1289 – Injury in Meat Packing Plant Results in $50,000 Fine for Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed at the Erie Meat Products Ltd. Plant in Mississauga, Ontario, was cleaning excess packaging from a machine was injured after removing interlocking guards from the front of the machine. The company failed to ensure that the hot dog loader/packer machine was locked-out when the worker was removing excess plastic.