A Toronto-based company that manufactures inner spring units for mattresses has been fined $100,000, plus a 25 percent victim fine surcharge, after a worker was crushed to death. On April 13, 2005, a worker was helping to operate a crating machine that is used to pack inner spring units by compressing them into crates for transport. He was found pinned between the compressed coils and the machine's moving frame. The worker had just begun to manually load the machine with the next load of mattress coils when the incident occurred. It was determined that he had been inside the machine adjusting the […]
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