Worker’s hand caught in machine on 25th

birthday; $241K in OSHA fines

December 12, 2o14

Fred Hosier

We’d all like our birthdays to be memorable … but not for this reason. Following an employee’s injury, OSHA issued almost a quarter-million dollars in fines against this company. 

On his 25th birthday, an employee of Wagner’s LLC, a wild bird food manufacturer in Milford, IL, had his left hand and arm severely injured after they were caught in a moving piece of machinery. The employee was clearing birdseed from an industrial mixing tank. He had been on the job for just two months. The worker was hospitalized due to the injury.

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