An unsupervised nightshift worker died because a giant mixer was not locked out. Vitafoam Products Canada Limited of Toronto, ON, plead guilty in 2006 to violations stemming from a 2004 incident in a foam manufacturing plant. The worker entered a giant mixer to replace a pipe. Prior to entering the machine, he turned it off with a master key. But a second worker, unaware that anyone was inside the mixer, turned it back on. An Ontario Ministry of Labour investigation found that the mixer had not been locked out. There was also no notification that anyone had entered the machine, and there […]
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