A US glass container plant has instituted several Occup. Safety & Health Admin. (OSHA)-ordered protective measures in response to an industrial accident that killed a worker there on 3 May this year, according to a report released by the US Department of Labor. Maria Constancio, 35, died at the Ball-Foster Glass plant when her clothes were caught in assembly line machinery, authorities said. Maria died of asphyxiation by chest compression. The OSHA inspected the plant immediately after the accident & issued 4 "serious" violations of the Occup. Safety & Health Act of 1970, the report says. Ball-Foster did not contest the violations & paid the sum of US$10,000 in fines. The report stated that palletizer machinery operators "were performing duties of unjamming machines without adequate procedures for controlling hazardous energy."
