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Worker Buried Alive After Sugar Plant Pulls Safety Device
Newser ^ | June 8, 2014 | Rob Quinn

Posted on 07/08/2014 5:50:41 AM PDT by Enterprise

A worker at a Pennsylvania sugar plant died buried alive in sugar in an accident that could have been prevented by a safety device removed just 13 days earlier, a ProPublica investigation finds. Janio Salinas—a 50-year-old who, like every other employee in the CSC Sugar warehouse in Fairless Hills, was a temp worker—died after climbing inside a huge hopper to remove sugar clogs on February 25, 2013. The warehouse manager told the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that he had asked for a safety screen to prevent such an accident, but after one was installed, the plant manager decided to get rid of it because it was slowing down production.

(snip) The death at the plant that supplies the makers of Snapple drinks and Ben & Jerry's ice cream was one of numerous gruesome deaths that spurred OSHA to boost enforcement of rules affecting temp workers . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at newser.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: drinks; safety; supervisor; work
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To: polymuser

I can’t boycott a product I never use anyway.


21 posted on 07/08/2014 6:06:40 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

This would have never happened if they were using high fructose corn syrup.


22 posted on 07/08/2014 6:06:59 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Enterprise
Best hourly job I ever had was as a staffer (permanent HR employee) at a temp agency. Was full-time but only worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday (12 hour shifts, though) and was pretty close to six figures to boot.
23 posted on 07/08/2014 6:09:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: left that other site

Oops. I didn’t notice it. Now, even I am wondering why Newser printed the article.


24 posted on 07/08/2014 6:12:00 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nice!


25 posted on 07/08/2014 6:12:43 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: icwhatudo
” Janio Salinas—a 50-year-old who, like every other employee in the CSC Sugar warehouse in Fairless Hills, was a temp worker”

Illegals and temp workers. That is how business is done today in America.

I can't help but wonder if this poor man had a limited grasp of English and didn't quite understand the safety requirements of the task.

26 posted on 07/08/2014 6:13:58 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: left that other site; Robert A. Cook, PE; 1rudeboy; Opinionated Blowhard; palmer; Enterprise; ...

In April 2000, Ben & Jerry’s sold the company to Anglo-Dutch multinational food giant Unilever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry’s


27 posted on 07/08/2014 6:15:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Enterprise

Any indication as to Senor Salinas’ immigration status?


28 posted on 07/08/2014 6:20:51 AM PDT by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: Enterprise
I can’t boycott a product I never use anyway.

Apparently you haven't been paying attention. The left has perfected boycotting things they don't use in the first place. Just get your panties all in a wad through social media and the companies will cave. They have no way to tell if you are an actual customer.

29 posted on 07/08/2014 6:22:13 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: albie

On a number of posts it seems to be nostalgia week with “un-recent” stories.


30 posted on 07/08/2014 6:23:40 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Enterprise

They sometimes step in it big time.


31 posted on 07/08/2014 6:26:05 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh OK.

But they still push the liberal agenda, even in the names of their flavors.


32 posted on 07/08/2014 6:28:07 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

That’s their “schtick” which makes them somehow different from Haagen-Dazs and their other competitors in the minds of the sheeple. Why would Unilever goof that up?


33 posted on 07/08/2014 6:34:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Enterprise

Not to worry there’s more coming in everyday /s


34 posted on 07/08/2014 6:37:45 AM PDT by glyptol
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, if i bought a business, and the “schtick” was something i didn’t believe in, I would change it.

That is why I am poor as dirt, I guess. I can’t do something against my conscience just for the money.


35 posted on 07/08/2014 6:47:51 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: glyptol; Enterprise

Boy howdy!

Report: 300,000 Central American immigrants heading to U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3177195/posts


36 posted on 07/08/2014 6:48:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Enterprise

Well the Company will be shamed into fixing the safety screw up that led to this death. The family and locals will be demanding explanations on what happened. People should not be buried alive at sugar plants. That’s how the system should work. Self correcting.


37 posted on 07/08/2014 7:25:41 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Enterprise

Is this the plot for a horror movie (”Attack of the Killer Sugar Plants”) or another bad headline?


38 posted on 07/08/2014 8:02:24 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: DickBrannigan

If he was an illegal alien, his status is now “departed deported.”


39 posted on 07/08/2014 9:20:48 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And that means 300,000 more Americans out of work.


40 posted on 07/08/2014 9:22:23 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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