Rendering firm challenges OSHA citation
Our tenth most read story last month was one on Darling Ingredients. The company claimed safety procedures were adequate in a rendering plant fatalities case. Darling Ingredients Inc maintained that safety procedures at a Mississippi animal feed plant were adequate despite the death of two maintenance workers, and it asked federal judges to rule in its favour.
The Texas-based supplier was challenging a US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) citation and proposed $75,092 fine for allegedly having inadequate instructions on how to maintain an industrial-scale pressure cooker that fatally burned the workers in August 2020, noted the Bloomberg Law report.
The explosion in question occurred at the company’s DAR PRO Solutions plant at the Greater Jackson Industrial Park near Byram. That facility collects and recycles cooking oil and meat byproducts, which are used in the manufacture of pet food. Two maintenance workers died from complications of thermal burns.
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