A food production worker employed at a pizza dough manufacturing plant was killed when he was struck in the neck by the steel blade on a dough machine. The victim and a co-worker were assigned to clean a dough machine. The facility’s lockout/tagout procedure required an operator to set the control buttons of one machine to "off" and "manual" before turning off the main power switches. Prior to the incident, the victim turned off and locked the power switches, but left the controls set to "on" and "automatic." In order to clean the outside of the bowl, the co-worker had to […]