For the second time in over two years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says the Mar-Jac Poultry processing plant in Hattiesburg disregarded safety standards that led to a worker’s death, a 16-year-old sanitation worker who was pulled into a deboning machine last July, federal safety investigators found.
The teen contract worker, employed by Onin Staffing LLC, was sanitizing the still-energized machine, when caught in the rotating shaft and sprockets and pulled into the machine sustaining fatal injuries.
Despite a manager’s supervision around the area prior to the incident, lockout/tagout procedures were not utilized to disconnect power to the machine and a lockout/tagout device was not used to prevent the machine from unintentionally starting during the cleaning.
OSHA cited Mar-Jac Poultry with 14 serious and three other-than-serious violations, and has proposed $212,646 in penalties, an amount set by federal statute. (Magnolia Tribune 01/17/24)
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