INCIDENT At about 6 am on March 5/2014, Erik Deighton, aged 23, was operating a stamping machine when it became jammed. He tried to clear the obstructions when the machine cycled to stamp a part and crushed the victim to death. Erik was working a 12-hour shift starting at midnights at Colonial Plastics, a factory in Shelby Township, Michigan that supplies parts to auto, aerospace and appliance manufacturers.  NEED TO KNOW A young shift worker was just getting his life going when his life was taken away from him while he was working.  BUSINESS / REGULATIONS Was Deighton’s tragic death an accident? Or could it have […]