The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is proposing almost $2.8 million in penalties against Cintas Corp. following an investigation into a worker's death in March 2007. Eleazar Torres-Gomez, 46, died after he fell into an operating industrial dryer while clearing a jam of wet laundry on a conveyor that carries laundry from the washer into the dryer at a Cintas facility in Tulsa, OK. Torres- Gomez was trapped for at least 20 minutes in the dryer, which operates at temperatures approaching 300 F (149 C). He was pronounced dead at the scene. "Plant management at the Cintas Tulsa laundry facility ignored […]
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