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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Friday, July 02, 2004 ::
Jury awards $17 million in milk plant worker's death AP, HoustonChronicle
"The supervisor knew how to turn off the machine but he wouldn't do it and went looking for maintenance because he said it was their job to handle, and he didn't want to hurt the machinery," said Rodriguez.
Martinez, 40, was assigned to a new plant area on Jan. 23, 2003, after another worker called in sick, Rodriguez said. He said Martinez was not trained how to operate machinery that pushed milk crates from one conveyor belt to another and she was left alone when another employee went on a break.
The machinery stopped and plaintiffs' lawyers believe Martinez tried to remove a crate from a back conveyor because she thought it would jam belts once the line started again. But the worker apparently didn't see that the crate was tripping a sensor that shut off the pushing mechanism.
Removing the crate triggered the mechanism, pushing a stack of six crates against Martinez's back and pinning her face against a steel wall, said Lynn Watson, another of Martinez's lawyers.
A supervisor was summoned when the employee who had gone on a break returned but did not know how to turn off the machine. Rodriguez said the supervisor left to find maintenance without turning off the machine.
'Ten to 15 employees showed up, and none of them knew how to turn it off, so they were just sitting there watching her die of suffocation,' Rodriguez told the Austin American-Statesman in today's editions.------------------------------------------- posted 6:42 AM :: reference link ::
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