Just five weeks after a 28-year-old maintenance worker lost part of his right arm in an improperly guarded bread wrapping machine at the Cincinnati-based Klosterman Baking Co., federal safety inspectors investigating the injury found another worker exposed to the same hazard.
On Nov. 3, 2016, OSHA proposed penalties of $146,979 for one willful and two serious violations of safety standards at the Klosterman facility. Inspectors found the large wholesale baking company - with production and distribution operations in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee - continued to allow employees to clean the machine without isolating operating parts, a process known as lockout/tagout.