LOTO Accidents #5
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Man crushed by baler; Recycling center employee flown to San Jose trauma unit
By KEVIN HOWE
A worker at a Monterey recycling center was taken by helicopter to San Jose after his chest was crushed in a baling machine Friday morning. Juan Ortega, 27, was flown by Cal-Star helicopter to San Jose Medical Center’s trauma unit shortly before 10 a.m., according to Monterey Fire Division Chief Mike Ventimiglia. Because of patient confidentiality rules, the medical center would not disclose his condition late Friday, but one of his supervisors said he is expected to survive. Ortega was working with other employees of Monterey City Disposal Service Inc. at its recycling plant on Ryan Ranch Road, servicing a baling machine, equipment that includes a large steel cylinder. The cylinder rolled and pinned him against the machine, and part of the cylinder pierced his chest, Ventimiglia said. Workers at the plant helped firefighters move Ortega to an ambulance. Firefighters and paramedics determined that his injuries were so serious that he needed to be flown to a trauma center rather than driven to a local hospital. To create a landing zone for the helicopter, cars were cleared from the nearby CTB/McGraw-Hill parking lot. Ortega was flown to San Jose Medical Center, where hospital authorities reported he was admitted to its intensive care unit. “We’re not sure how it happened,” said Tom Parola, operations supervisor at the plant. The hydraulically powered machine is being disassembled in an attempt to determine exactly what caused the accident, Parola said. Tentatively, he said, it appeared the machine jammed on a piece of steel not normally run through the recycling process. The worker who was with Ortega when the mishap occurred, Parola said, accompanied him to the hospital. Ortega’s family had been notified and was en route to San Jose on Friday afternoon, Parola said, adding that Ortega is expected to recover. Monterey Disposal is a private contractor with an exclusive franchise for collecting and processing solid waste in Monterey, and it operates its Ryan Ranch Road recycling plant on land it leases from the city.
Worker dies at steel plant
A worker at a south Wales steel plant has died after becoming trapped in a piece of machinery. The 54-year-old man died at the Alpha Steel plant in Newport on Saturday while he was carrying out maintenance tasks. The Health and Safety Executive has launched an investigation into the death. A spokesman for Gwent Police said: “A male person got trapped in machinery below the waist. “Police, paramedics and the fire service attended but unfortunately the man died at the scene. “It appears he was carrying out maintenance work at the premises involving a roller which formed part of the machinery.” In 1997, two employees of the steel company were injured in a series of explosions when a burst pipe poured water onto molten metal in an electric arc furnace.
Worker dies in accident at Deming chile processing factory
Last Update: 08/21/2003 12:50:21 PM By: Associated Press
(Deming-AP) — A worker died of head injuries he suffered when he was caught in some machinery at a chile processing factory in Deming. The Luna County Sheriff’s Department says 64-year-old Juan Cordero of Cauahtemoc, Mexico, died Monday at the Border Foods factory. Medical investigator Karl Bennett has labeled the death an industrial accident. The sheriff’s department says Cordero was helping clean around a chili hopper when the hopper was lowered. Authorities say Cordero’s head was caught between the hopper bottom plate and a hydraulic pump.
Worker at Lunenburg steel framing plant said to be ‘fine’ after industrial accident
By Megan Blaney Thursday, August 21, 2003 –
LUNENBURG — A worker at a steel framing plant on Summer Street was flown to a trauma center after suffering an industrial accident on Wednesday afternoon. “He was struck and caught between a roll of steel and a piece of machinery,” said Lt. Jim Ricci of the Lunenburg Fire Department. Emergency workers said the Dietrich Industries worker was taken by LifeFlight helicopter from the launch pad at HealthAlliance Hospital/Leominster to the trauma center at UMass-Worcester. Apart from that, no other information was released on the Dietrich Industries worker. “Under the new regulations, we can’t say anything about the patient,” said Lt. Scott Dillon of the Lunenburg Fire Department, who was one of the emergency responders to the accident. “He was released, and he is fine,” said Doug Barber, a representative at the Lunenburg Dietrich Industries plant. “He’s fine, and that’s all I care about.” Barber declined to comment further on the accident. The Lunenburg plant is one of more than 20 facilities across the country operated by the Pittsburgh-based steel framing company, according to national accounts manager Brian Kutchma. The Dietrich plants manufacture metal studs, which Kutchma said function like a galvanized steel version of a traditional 2-by-4 wood beam, are used in commercial constructions such as the Sun Microsystems campus in Burlington and the UMass Medical Center in Worcester. At the Summer Street plant, Kutchma said, employees start with a large coil of metal and manufacture C-shaped metal studs of various sizes.
South Georgia man dies in work related accident
August 20, 2003
Bainbridge – 33 year old Don Hudson of Attapulgus worked at Elberta Crate and Box company for nearly ten years. On Tuesday, he got caught in a wood chipping machine. His arm was amputated and his head cut. He later died at a Dothan hospital. Those who knew him best say Don Hudson was a generous man. Cousin Andre’ Carter says Don Hudson was more than just a cousin, he was a friend. “If there was anything you ever needed, you could go to him, and he would give it to you,” says Carter. But at a time when they most wanted to return the favor, there was nothing family and friends could do. Hudson was working on a wood chipper when the fan sucked him in, amputating his arm and cutting his head. Hudson was airlifted to the South Eastern Medical Hospital in Dothan Alabama where he later died. Owner of Elberta Crate and Box company, Ramsey Simmons, would not comment on the incident, but S.T. Dowdell says Hudson was a good man and a hard worker, he knows, because Hudson used to work for him. Funeral services will be held at 10 AM on Saturday at Saint Paul’s church in Attapulgus.
UPDATE Failure to Maintain Safety Devices, Procedures Leads to $136,350 Fine for Watertown, Wis. Employer
Amputation result of company’s careless approach to worker safety, Labor Secretary says
MADISON, WIS. — A Watertown, Wis. company is facing $136,350 in fines proposed by the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) following a February 2003 accident in which an employee suffered the amputation of his lower left arm while reaching into potentially activated machinery to retrieve a piece of scrap metal. An OSHA investigation into the accident revealed that Fisher Barton, Inc., a company that manufactures lawn mower blades and other heat-treated stampings a metals, failed to properly repair a hot trimming press used in a steel forge to trim hot metal after a safety device designed to prevent accidental energizing of the trimming press was broken and removed in the spring of 2002. The safety device was never replaced. OSHA also charged the company with failing to provide adequate training in lockout/tagout procedures, a lack of machine guarding, and failure to maintain forge shop equipment in a safe operating condition as well as not locking out, stopping or blocking the operation of the hot trimming press during servicing or maintenance. “Fisher Barton, Inc., was fully aware of this terrible hazard, but failed to take appropriate steps to protect workers,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. “OSHA’s first commitment is to protect workers from such tragedies. We stand ready to assist employers of all sizes to make their workplace safe, but we will fully enforce standards when employers take a careless approach to workplace safety and health.” A division of Accurate Specialties, Inc., Waukesha, Wis., Fisher Barton employees 165 workers at the Watertown facility located at 1109 Falcon Ct., Watertown, where the accident occurred. Fisher Barton has two plants in Watertown and one in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. Two earlier inspections of the Watertown plants in 1995 and 1993 resulted in violations uncovered by OSHA for machine guarding, lack of personal protective equipment, and lockout/tagout issues. According to OSHA Area Director Kimberly Stille, Madison, the company has 15 working days from receipt of the citations to appeal before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. OSHA is dedicated to saving lives, preventing injuries and illnesses and protecting America’s workers. Safety and health add value to business, the workplace and life. For more information, visit www.osha.gov.
Man injured at General Mills
An employee at the Wellston plant of General Mills, on Route 327 near Wellston was injured Sunday morning as he was cleaning a piece of equipment. “We did have an injury to an employee early Sunday morning while cleaning a piece of equipment,” said General Mills Vice President of Corporate Communication Tom Forsythe. “The family has asked us not to discuss the nature of his injuries or his condition and we intend to honor their request,” Forsythe said. Forsythe declined to comment on any details of the accident, due to the company’s pledge to the privacy of the family.
Man injured at Shawano lumber plant
By Joe Vandel, Leader Reporter
A Shawano man is recovering at a Fox Valley hospital after he was seriously injured Thursday morning in an accident while working at Sorenson Lumber Company. The injured man, who was identified as Jeff Melcher, 40, was transported by Theda Star helicopter to Theda Clark Regional Medical Center in Neenah after it took nearly an hour for emergency personnel to extricate Melcher from an edging machine. A Theda Clark spokesman Thursday afternoon said Melcher was in fair condition (and was not in the intensive care unit). Capt. Jeff Zimmerman of the Shawano Area Fire Department, described Melcher’s injuries as “very serious” leg and foot injuries.
Mother of two dies in meat grinder
Av: Hanne Dankertsen 05. aug 09:42
A Swedish woman died last weekend after falling into a meat grinder with her 31-year-old daughter witnessing the accident. «I don’s understand how this could happen, it is just so horrible», the daughter told Swedish newspaper Expressen. The mother was running a small factory in Bua, Sweden, along with her daughter. The family business produced and sold mink food, fish flour and dog snacks. On Friday night the mother and daughter were cleaning the plant. Somehow the mother fell down into big container where the giant grinder hit her. We do not know yet exactly how this happened, we just know it was a dreadful accident», said the police. One theory is that a high-pressure hose used to clean the container got stuck in the grinder and pulled the woman down. The mother was already dead as the daughter came to the grinder to check. The place where the mother was standing to clean the container was extremely slippery due to the fish remains. The 47-year-old mother and the 31-year-old daughter took over the business three years ago. The mother worked as a watchwoman before she decided to help her daughter out with the new business. The woman has another daughter aged 25. It is all so unreal and dreadful. We are all feeling really bad», a member of the family told Expressen.
Bakery Employee Loses Four Fingers In Workplace Accident
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — An employee for a Seminole County bakery is recovering after a gruesome accident at work. It happened late Monday night at Carmine’s Bakery on Country Club Road. The bakery worker lost four fingers on the left hand. It’s not clear how the accident happened. A helicopter rushed the worker to the hospital.
Bulls Head man partially severs arm in accident
Sunday, July 27, 2003 By KAREN O’SHEA ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
A Bulls Head man partially severed his arm while using a circular saw at home yesterday. Neighbors heard Carmine Mazza, 42, of Goller Place, cry out for help around 9:20 a.m. after the lower part of his left arm was partially amputated in an accident that occurred during a home improvement project, police said. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan where doctors worked on reattaching his arm, said Police Department Spokeswoman Carmen Melendez. A hospital spokesman said Mazza was in stable condition yesterday. “When I heard him scream, I knew something real bad had happened,” said a shaken next-door neighbor, Valerie Lopiano. Mazza often works on his house or helps other homeowners on the block, neighbors said. He lives with his wife and two young sons in a semi-attached house near Willowbrook Park. It was unclear what kind of project Mazza was working on yesterday, but neighbor Rosita Benzaken saw him on the deck in his back yard shortly before the accident. “He’s a wonderful neighbor,” she said yesterday. “He will help anybody. If you need him, he’s there,” added Mrs. Lopiano. The two women credited another neighbor, Angie Careccia, with tying Mazza’s partially severed arm with towels and keeping ice on his hand until emergency service workers arrived.
UPDATE Stanley Canada Inc. fined $100,000 for health and safety violation
PERTH, ON, July 22 /CNW/ – Stanley Canada Inc., carrying on business as Stanley Mechanics Tools, a Burlington-based company that operates a plant in Smiths Falls, Ont. where tool boxes and tool chests are manufactured, was fined $100,000 on July 15, 2003 for a violation of the occupational Health and Safety Act that resulted in serious hand injuries to an employee. On January 15, 2002, a press set-up operator was making adjustments to a press and had switched off the motor when the press unexpectedly cycled and closed on the worker’s left hand. The worker was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus. The worker lost part of the hand. A Ministry of Labour investigation found the press was not stopped and blocked to prevent movement prior to the adjustments being made. The incident occurred at Stanley Canada Inc.’s plant on Lorne Street in Smiths Falls. Stanley Canada Inc. pleaded guilty, as an employer, to failing to ensure that motion that may endanger a worker was stopped and blocked to prevent subsequent movement before adjustments were made to the back stops in the die area of the press, as required by Section 75 of the Regulations for Industrial Establishments. This was contrary to Section 25(1)(c) of the act. The fine was imposed by Justice of the Peace Rene Proulx of the Ontario Court of Justice in Perth. In addition, the court imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge, as required by the Provincial Offences Act.
Worker Killed In Early Morning Accident
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — An industrial accident early this morning killed a worker in a Miami-Dade County factory. Police say Julio Herrera, 60, was loading aluminum pipes in a machine at the Pan American Medical Medal Product Company at 17401 N.W. 2nd Ave. when a piece of aluminum fired out the machine, hitting Herrera, causing him to bleed to death. Herrera’s son, John (pictured), blames faulty equipment for his father’s death. “He knew what he was doing in all his years. He never had one accident, but now he’s going to have an accident? I mean something obviously went wrong with the machinery,” he said. The plant’s manager, Munsoor Ahmad, disputes that claim. “We never have accident here. This is the first time. I’ve been working here 13 years,” Ahmad said. Miami-Dade County police are checking to see if the equipment Herrera was using was operating properly.
UPDATE £7,000 fine for safety breach
A FIRM has been fined £7,000 after a worker had part of his finger ripped off in the second gruesome accident involving similar machines to blight the company. Lee Parkinson’s right index finger was amputated at the knuckle and three others were fractured when he tried to replace a wire pulley in a machine at Bekeart Fencing Ltd in Tinsley. The company, formerly known as Tinsley Wire Ltd, had suffered a similar accident in 1991 when worker Glenn Green damaged fingers while operating a machine. The company was never prosecuted over the matter but was brought to court for the latest incident by the Health and Safety Executive. Sheffield Magistrates Court heard Mr Parkinson, a 31-year-old galvaniser, of Masbrough, Rotherham, was replacing wire on a pulley system in December last year when he felt his right glove being dragged into the machine. He spent two months off work. Health and Safety prosecutor Geoff Clark told the court there were no safety covers on the machine. The company had originally installed safety caps but had removed them months before the incident because they were deemed hazardous. Mr Clark told the court: “These machines should not have been taken into action without the guards. “The machines ran for a year with the majority of guide pulleys only being adequately guarded for a period of two months.” The freak accident was made even more unusual because the company is a member of the Wire and Wire Rope Employers Association which has worked towards improving safety at work. A company spokesperson, Mr Kimblin, told the court the accident happened not because they didn’t care about health and safety but because they had not acted quickly enough to install the guards. Mr Kimblin said: “The company has spent a lot of money on the guards but suffered technical setbacks and admits it should have accelerated the process. We have always taken health and safety very seriously but in this incident we should have addressed the matter more speedily.” Bekeart Fencing admitted one charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. They were fined and ordered to pay £900 costs.
Factory belt kills man
by Pilirani Semu-Banda, 24 July 2003 – 08:24:22
A man working for a lime company called P and M at Zalewa, Blantyre died on Tuesday afternoon after being injured by company machinery which severed his head. Another man who called from Zalewa said Gift Walidi, aged 24, was injured after a belt for a mill cut off his head while producing lime. “This incident happened around 7AM. It was a terrible sight to see a man’s head dangling from his neck,” said the man.He said the man was still breathing as he was being taken to hospital. An officer in the police public relations office Kelvin Maigwa confirmed the incident in an interview, saying Walidi died six hours later at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital following the accident. “I understand the machinery fell on him and injured him,” said Maigwa. He said Walidi hailed from Masinde Village, TA Chigalu, Blantyre.
UPDATE Firm fined £3,000 over worker’s injury
By Dan Slee Jul 18, 2003, 13:34:00
A Black Country company has been fined £3,000 and ordered to pay compensation to a worker injured operating machinery. The man received cuts and burns after equipment cut into his clothing at the Solid Swivel Co, Portersfield Road, Cradley Heath. Warley magistrates ordered the company to pay £660 costs and pay the injured worker £200 after he was unable to work for a week. Graham Perry, joint company managing director, admitted a single breach of the protection and proper use of machinery regulations. He said: “We are a very long established firm and in 94 years this is the first time we have been prosecuted. “We’ve have had the latest guards fitted and it appears one was taken off to allow the worker to see any potential hazards as he operated the machine. “This was the wrong thing to do and it should never have happened.” Gareth Langston, prosecuting, said the company, which has 40 workers, was prosecuted after the accident on April 22 this year. He said: “The machinery caught a sleeve and caused cuts and burns to an arm. Fortunately this was not more severe as it could have been a glove which had got caught and it would have ended with a finger being cut off.” The company makes swivels which can be fitted to the ends of chains and are used in a variety of ways by industry. Car makers Rolls Royce and Jaguar are among their customers.
UPDATE State fines IBP plant for safety
By the Union-Bulletin and AP
A man’s arm was amputated in the plant’s mechanical scissors. The company plans to contest the fines. Tyson Fresh Meats’ IBP processing plant at Wallula has been fined $61,500 for safety violations after an employee’s arm was amputated by a cutting machine. The employee, Luis Madrigal of Pasco, was operating the mechanical scissors, a machine commonly used in the industry to chop the feet off cattle, Jan. 2, when his right arm went into it. The bone and most of the flesh was severed. Doctors were not able to reattach it. Results of the state Department of Labor and Industries’ six-month investigation into the accident were made public Monday. The department fined Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. for altering the position of control handles, moving them closer to the point of operation than recommended by the manufacturer, “creating an amputation hazard.’ It also found the company had removed the safety guards from meat-cutting machines at the plant, Department of Labor and Industries spokeswoman Elaine Fischer said. Tyson Fresh Meats, formerly IBP Inc., was fined $55,000 for a “willful’ violation of safety rules for the five cutting machines, according to the citation documents. A willful violation is one in which the employer has intentionally violated safety rules or done so with plain indifference to worker safety, Fischer said. “Any time we issue a willful violation, it’s serious,’ she said. The maximum fine for a willful violation is $70,000 and is based on the size of the company, she said. The company has 15 business days to appeal. Tyson Foods Inc., which owns Tyson Fresh Meats, said in a news release that the company planned to contest the citations. An internal company investigation showed the machines’ guard mechanisms were in place and operating, the statement said. “We take the safety of our people very seriously,’ said Ed Nicholson, spokesman for Tyson Foods Inc. in Springdale, Ark. Other citations included a $5,500 fine for a “serious’ violation for failing to establish formal written procedures for operators of the cutting machines Madrigal was using, and not addressing potential hazards of control handles, according to L&I documents. Another $1,000 fine was levied for failing to provide safety training for another type of machine at the plant. The company also received a citation, but no fine, for failing to include a union representative in its preliminary accident investigation. Madrigal, 22, referred questions to his attorney, Bill Rutzick of Seattle, who said he had not had a chance to review the citations and could not comment on them. The Wallula plant has remedied all the safety violations since Madrigal’s accident, Fischer said.
Man dies in gelatin factory accident
July 10, 2003 — A 43-year-old man is dead after getting caught up in a machine at a gelatin factory in south suburban Chicago. The Cook County medical examiner says the victim was Roland Robley of Highland, Indiana. Robley was cleaning a machine at Dynagel Incorporated in Calumet City last night when a co-worker accidentally turned it on. A medical examiner’s spokesman says Robley was decapitated. Authorities are investigating the accident.
UPDATE 912189 Ontario Inc. fined $49,500 for health and safety violation
FORT FRANCES, ON, July 3 /CNW/ – 912189 Ontario Inc., carrying on business as Koeneman Lumber, a logging company with a sawmill in Rainy River, Ont., was fined a total of $49,500 on June 27, 2003 for five violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. On December 11, 2001, a worker was reaching into the cutting area of a chop saw to remove a piece of wood when the worker’s right thumb and tip of the right index finger were chopped off. The saw had been activated when the worker inadvertently stepped on an uncovered, unguarded foot switch. A Ministry of Labour investigation found the employer had failed to ensure the employee, along with other workers, used proper procedures for locking out the control switches when the starting of the machine could endanger them. The worker had been on the job for seven days. The incident occurred at Koeneman Lumber’s sawmill at Atwood Avenue and Highway 11 in Rainy River. 912189 Ontario Inc. pleaded guilty, as an employer, to: 1. Failing to ensure control switches or other control mechanisms of a copy saw were locked out when the starting of a machine could endanger a worker’s safety. This was contrary to Section 76 of the Regulations for Industrial Establishments and Section 25(1)(c) of the act; 2. Failing to ensure that a pinch point in a chain drive on the roller infeed in the west side yard of the sawmill was guarded. This was contrary to Section 25 of the Regulations for Industrial Establishments and Section 25(1)(c) of the act; 3. Failing to comply with an inspector’s orders. This was contrary to Section 66(1)(b) of the act; 4. Failing to ensure workers wore proper head protection. This was contrary to Section 80 of the Regulations for Industrial Establishments and Section 25(1)(d) of the act; and 5. Failing to ensure only workers over the age of 15 were employed at the sawmill. This was contrary to Section 4(1)(d) of the Regulations for Industrial Establishments and Section 25(2)(f) of the act. Justice of the Peace Pat Clysdale, of the Ontario Court of Justice in Fort Frances, fined the company $20,000 on the first count, $5,000 on the second count, $12,000 on the third count, $2,500 on the fourth count and $10,000 on the fifth count. In addition, the court imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge, as required by the Provincial Offences Act.
Motorized saw nearly severs worker’s hand
BALDWIN PARK — A 26-year-old Baldwin Park man had his hand nearly severed when someone turned on a motorized saw as he was working on it, a firefighter said. ‘‘He’ll live,” said Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Don Edwards. ‘‘And they may be able to reattach his hand.” The man, whose name was not available, was working about 4:30 p.m. at a bench in a small industrial business at 1453 N. Virginia Ave. in Baldwin Park. When someone turned on the electricity, the saw started and sliced into his wrist, nearly separating it, Edwards said. The man was flown to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center where doctors worked to reattach the hand.
Arm crushed in rolling machine
30jun03
A WORKER had his arm crushed in a rolling machine at a drum flattening plant in Melbourne’s north today. The man, aged in his early 30s, suffered multiple fractures to his right arm when it was caught in the machine at a Campbellfield factory about 10.40am (AEST), an ambulance spokesman said. Paramedics treated him on site before taking him to Royal Melbourne Hospital. He remains in a serious condition. The rolling machine involved in the accident is used to flatten 200-litre steel drums.
UPDATE PUC employee dies in tragic accident; Police rule out foul play
By David Ryan, Staff Writer
The family of a man who died when he fell into a trash compactor at Pacific Union College mourned their loss on Tuesday, burying the body of Nelson Armando Rivera in St. Helena Cemetery. Rivera, 39, of Angwin, fell into PUC’s trash compactor pit on June 16 shortly after noon, Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Loughran said. The compactor was about the size of a dumpster on a garbage truck. The county coroner determined Rivera died of asphyxia and internal traumatic injuries. Foul play was ruled out. “We estimate he was in there for no more than 35 to 45 minutes,” Loughran said. The Department of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the matter. Dean Fryer, a spokesman for DOSH, said state investigators would focus on the equipment Rivera used and whether he was properly trained to use it. The investigation could take from two to three months, he said, but by law it must be finished in six. Fryer said Rivera was last seen by employees around 10 a.m. the morning of the accident. When his coworkers went to lunch, they assumed Rivera was at lunch, too. But Fryer said one employee spotted Rivera’s car in the parking lot, and turned back to try to find Rivera. The employee discovered the compactor was jammed in the closed position. When maintenance workers arrived and opened the compactor, Rivera’s body was inside. PUC spokesperson Michelle Rai said Rivera’s job included hauling trash to the college’s compactor area on a bobcat, but sometimes Rivera would push the trash in the pit with a broom. Loughran said Rivera’s mother told the Sheriff’s department her son had fallen into the compactor two weeks before. According to a statement from Rivera’s family, he leaves behind his wife Ana, whom he married a year ago February. On Thursday, the college held a meeting for employees and Rivera’s coworkers who had questions about the incident or needed support. Rivera was born in El Salvador, but moved to California as a teenager. He graduated from Pasadena High School in 1983. Family members said he loved outdoor activities with his father. Rai said Rivera started working for PUC’s Plant Services department in 1996.
UPDATE Charges laid in accident at tire plant: woman caught in cutting machine
GRANTON, N.S. (CP) – Michelin and a contracted cleaning company face health and safety charges after an accident at the Granton, Nova Scotia tire plant last January. Melissa Aiken, an employee with Dave’s Commercial Cleaning, required plastic surgery after she got caught in a cutting machine. Michelin is charged with failing to provide adequate training on the cutter lesson plan and with failing to ensure an adequate safeguard was installed on the machine. Dave’s Cleaning is charged with failing to provide necessary information, training and supervision. Both companies have pleaded not guilty. Michelin goes to trial November 12th to 14th, while Dave’s Cleaning will go to trial over three days beginning next January.
Probe launched into industrial accident
An investigation is underway into an industrial accident where a man has lost part of his arm at a factory at Kemblawarra, south of Wollongong. The ambulance service says the 40-year-old man’s right arm was severed below his elbow when it became caught in a conveyor belt at the Shellharbour Road factory about 3:00am AEST today. He was treated by paramedics and was taken to Wollongong Hospital, before being transferred to Sydney’s St George Hospital. He was reported to be in a serious condition. WorkCover is investigating.