OSHA has cited Agway Inc., Guilderland Center, New York, and proposed penalties of $137,500 against the firm for one alleged willful violation, two alleged repeat violations, one alleged failure-to-abate, and one alleged other-than-serious violation of OSHA standards.
According to OSHA area director John Tomich, the action results from an investigation begun by OSHA on August 16, 1999, following an accident at the Agway feed mill, in which an employee was permanently paralyzed in a fall. The employee, who had been standing on a conveyor, attempting to replace a broken conveyor belt, when he fell nine feet to the concrete floor below and landed on a steel strip bolted to the floor.