A teenage worker died when his head became caught in the pasta-making machine he was operating. His job was to put the ingredients into the machine. The operator was supposed to have been protected from the machine's moving parts by a stainless steel guard. If the guard was lifted, a safety device was to have stopped the machine. Investigation of the fatality showed the guard had not been working properly for several months before this happened. Workers had developed a practice of using the machine without the safety device. The young worker had been excited about his promotion to pasta maker two […]
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