Union Foundry Company, a subsidiary of McWane, Inc. located in Anniston, Ala., proudly announced employees surpassed one-million work hours with no lost time due to injury or illness this past June — shortly before court papers unsealed in a federal district court documented that the foundry admitted to willfully violating federal safety rules, resulting in the death of a 27-year-old worker who was crushed in a conveyor belt.
There was no required safety guard on the conveyor belt, even though an employee at a McWane foundry in Texas had been crushed to death in another unguarded conveyor belt less than two months earlier.