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No, That Is NOT 'Sweet!'
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A temp worker was buried alive in sugar at a Bucks County sugar distributor, and it turns out, according to this report, that a safety device -- a screen -- that would have prevented the temp from being sucked into the hopper to his death had been removed 13 days earlier because a manager thought it was slowing down production. They'd had a close call at about that same time, but the plant manager allegedly left the screen off. Interestingly, despite these violations and the plant's practice of hiring nothing but workers classified as "temps," OSHA says it can't do anything more than fining the plant owner a little bit. They can't close the plant, and its ability to enforce criminal law is limited. This is pretty wrong. (ProPublica/Univision via Philly.com)
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