Mars Wrigley slapped with OSHA fine after workers fell into chocolate tank

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited The Mars Wrigley Confectionary with a 'serious citation' for an incident involving two workers falling into a vat of chocolate last year.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited The Mars Wrigley Confectionary with a"serious citation" for an incident involving two workers falling into a vat of chocolate last year.

Two contracted workers in June 2022 fell into a chocolate tank at their M&M/Mars facility in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.The workers were rescued after emergency crews cut a hole in the bottom of the tank to get them out. They received treatment at the hospital. OSHA fined Mars Wrigley more than $14,500 for the incident and reprimanded the candy factory for not properly training workers on how to clean the chocolate tank in the facility.The workers were employed by an outside contracting firm and were conducting maintenance work when they fell into the chocolate tank.

A Mars Wigley spokesperson told media that the safety of all of their factory workers"is a top priority for our business."

 

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You will find tow nails in special candy coatings.

Hope it wasn’t hot cocolate.

Did they come out as trans like the candies?

I still ask 'How in the world did this happen, were there no rails to protect the workers?'

Video of the incident. 👇

will this occupy weeks of pundit airtime like them changing the fucking shoes on the cartoon candy girl, or do we only do that for things that don't matter at all

What a crisis!

What a way to go!

Was there a Golden Ticket ?

Was it Augustus Gloop?

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