Mars Wrigley factory fined after two workers fall into chocolate vat

US workplace information regulators person fined a Pennsylvania mill aft 2 workers fell into a vat of cocoa and had to beryllium rescued.

The Mars Wrigley mill successful the metropolis of Elizabethtown was fined much than $14,500 (£12,000) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The workers were contractors that did not enactment afloat clip for the factory.

The incidental happened successful June 2022. A spread had to beryllium chopped into the bottommost of the partly-full vessel to get them out.

More than 2 twelve rescuers responded, and 1 idiosyncratic was transported to infirmary by helicopter, according to section reports.

The regulator's report labelled the incidental "serious". It says the workers were hired to cleanable tanks, and were not provided with due information training.

It noted that the workers fell into a batching vessel - a vessel utilized to premix ingredients - for Dove chocolate, a marque sold successful the US. In the UK and elsewhere, Dove is sold arsenic Galaxy.

A typical for Mars Wrigley welcomed the result of Osha's investigation.

"The information of our associates and extracurricular contractors is simply a apical precedence for our business," said the spokesperson.

"As always, we admit Osha's collaborative attack to moving with america to behaviour the after-action review."