A lumber company in northeastern Wisconsin has been fined nearly $300,000 by federal safety regulators for continuing to expose workers to amputations and other hazards years after an employee died on the job.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Tuesday that it fined Tigerton Lumber Company $283,608 on Dec. 22. The agency said an inspection last July found multiple violations of federal safety regulations, ranging from inadequate security on machinery, stairs without handrails, and the installation of conveyors. It is fenced or marked as a prohibited area, the electrical box is open, and there are no signs warning employees not to enter the hazardous area.
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The inspection was part of OSHA's program to monitor serious violators. The company was designated as such after 46-year-old employee Scott Spiegel died while operating logging equipment in 2018.
A Wisconsin lumber company has been fined nearly $300,000 in the death of an employee.
Sarah Molak, the company's business manager, did not immediately return a message Tuesday.
In September, a sawmill in northern Wisconsin agreed to pay a fine of about $191,000 to the U.S. Department of Labor after a teenage employee died on the job. Michael Schulse, 16, died in July after being crushed by a wood-stacking machine at Florence Hardwoods.
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A subsequent investigation revealed that three teens, aged between 15 and 16, were injured at the sawmill between November 2021 and March 2023.
