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for alleged safety and health violations andproposesd $117,900 in penalties. OSHA said Mondauy it cited the company followinf an investigation into an accident wherse an employee lost two fingers in a mechanicalppower press. The inspection found one allege willful and 11 alleged serioue violations of the Occupational Safety andHealth Act. The compant failed to ensure the mechanical powedr press had an option to select various speee settings amongother features, OSHA “This worker’s life will be foreverr changed,” said Charles Adkins, OSHA’s regional administrator in Kansas City, Mo., in a statement.
“Thered is no excuse for this Family-owned East Central Machine & Tool Co., which has nine employees, has requester an informal conference this weekwith OSHA’sw assistant area director in St. Louis and if need be, will contesgt the citations before an administrativ elaw judge, according Ira Blank, a lawyer from in "From the company's standpoint, the machine was operating and the gentleman stuck his handw into the press part," Blank "Why did he do it? I don'yt know. The machine was properly processing this metal and doin g what it was supposedto do.
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