Worker fatality results in $1.33 million in criminal, civil fines against S.D. company
Company agrees to expand safety & health department
Adams Thermal Systems, Inc. has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office and OSHA to pay more than $1.33 million to resolve criminal penalties and OSHA fines levied as a result of the death of a worker on Nov. 7, 2011, in the company's Canton, S.D. plant. The U.S. Attorney's Office filed the Deferred Prosecution Agreement on Sept. 5, 2013, and has asked that it be approved by the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.
Under the terms of the agreement, the company will pay the worker's surviving spouse $450,000, a criminal fine of $450,000 and the full OSHA fine of $435,000 stemming from the regulatory violations that caused the fatality and additional violations discovered in subsequent inspections.