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The company faces nearly $300,000 in proposed penalties.

On June 1, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a Local Emphasis Program (LEP) impacting “seafood processing operations and related merchant wholesaler...

OSHA issued a Local Emphasis Program impacting seafood processing operations and merchant wholesaler operations in two targeted codes North American Industry Classification System, NAICS Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging, and Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers.

Investigators find safety failures led to two workers amputation injuries.

One workers fingertip was amputated, while anothers hand was crushed.

OSHA found that, in 2019, Ohio's food production workers had almost a 57% higher rate of amputation than manufacturers in the private sector overall.

A 2019 study conducted by the U.S. Department of labor found that food production workers in Illinois and Ohio had significantly higher injury rates than the overall rates for...

Powered Industrial Trucks (forklifts) are the focus of a new OSHA Regional Emphasis Program(REP). The program covers Colorado, Montana, North Dakota…

Injury rates among food production workers in those states are significantly higher than other manufacturing workers.

Awareness and enforcement programs have been ramped up in Illinois and Ohio.