Poultry plant fined $1M over 'entirely avoidable' deaths of six workers

[superpatriotman]

The Department of Labor this week issued nearly $1 million in fines over a January nitrogen leak at a poultry processing plant that killed six people and hospitalized at least a dozen others.

The agency in a Thursday document listed a total of 59 safety violations and $998,637 in proposed penalties for the Foundation Food Group and three other companies with roles at the Gainesville, Ga., plant.

The fines followed an investigation by the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which found that six workers at the plant died of asphyxiation after entering a freezer room where an equipment malfunction caused liquid nitrogen to release into the air.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/564656-poultry-plant-fined-1m-over-entirely-avoidable-deaths-of-six-workers

[Tadpole Raisin]

1. They should have made it 20 million

1 million for each worker then

Pay each family 1 million for their loss then

Require the owners, managers, board of directors, senior executives all to work 1 month on the factory floor (y’all can increase that time) after which they will come up with changes to their production set up that satisfy the workers.

Then every year they must work on the floor for 1 week as long as they are associated with the company.

There I feel better now…

[flying_wahini]

2. Welcome to DU, Tadpole Raisin!

I think ALL CEO’s everywhere should be forced to work alongside
employees several weeks a year,too.

Most of Labor disputes would be resolved a lot quicker.

Also pay them what they would have made if they had been a ‘regular’ worker, too.

[Hortensis]

3. More wrongful death lawsuits will be added to those already filed,

along with suits or claims from other people who ended up in the hospital or otherwise sustained injury as a result. Including other businesses adversely affected. After these findings, those on the wrong side of this will be busy settling.

[ZonkerHarris]

4. At $165,000 each it's pretty cheap to kill your workers

[gratuitous]

5. And these fines are just "proposed"

No doubt the company will appeal - probably successfully - to have the fines reduced substantially. If you or I killed six people we'd be in jail for a long, long time, regardless of whether it was done with malice aforethought or just a colossal "whoops." But if you're a corporate person in these here United States, you can kill six people, injure dozens more, and the government will come down on you with the wettest possible noodle and slap your wrist.

And apparently, that's the way we like things to be.

[dawg]

6. Came to this thread looking for Gainesville.

Not surprised to find it.