Despite two severe amputation injuries in 2018 and 2020 on the same machine at a Lakewood, New Jersey, ice cream manufacturing plant, a recent federal safety and health inspection found the company continued to ignore protocols designed to prevent other workers from suffering similar injuries.

A maintenance mechanic lost two fingers while repairing an ice cream wrapper machine. Following a September 2020 investigation, The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found that Fieldbrook Foods Corp. willfully failed to shut down and isolate energy to the machine during repair work. OSHA has proposed $237,176 in penalties.