Dive Brief:
- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued two very different rulings in cases in which food workers were killed on the job during the summer.
- The regulatory agency cleared Kellogg of any wrongdoing in the death of a man who fell from a ladder at a Georgia bakery.
- OSHA ruled that JBS was responsible for the death of a man who was trapped in a conveyer in June.
Dive Insight:
It's worth remembering that the food business can be a dangerous one. The typical food production facility is filled with machines and tools that can prove lethal. And accidents do happen. And OSHA investigators are quick to point out that some deaths, as unfortunate as they might be, cannot be blamed on anyone. That's exactly what OSHA has done in the Kellogg case.
The JBS case is quite different however. OSHA ruled that JBS had flaws in its safety systems that placed a 54-year-old man in unnecessary danger.
