The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited The Mars Wrigley Confectionary with a “serious citation” for an incident involving two workers falling into a vat of chocolate last year.
Two contracted workers in June 2022 fell into a chocolate tank at their M&M/Mars facility in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
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The workers were rescued after emergency crews cut a hole in the bottom of the tank to get them out. They received treatment at the hospital.
OSHA fined Mars Wrigley more than $14,500 for the incident and reprimanded the candy factory for not properly training workers on how to clean the chocolate tank in the facility.
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The workers were employed by an outside contracting firm and were conducting maintenance work when they fell into the chocolate tank.
A Mars Wigley spokesperson told media that the safety of all of their factory workers “is a top priority for our business.”
