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It is now the largest supplier of liquid products and third-largest beef supplier to McDonald's in the USA
In Golden State Foods, an employee was literally ground up in a meat blender when he went in, as was part of their regular practice, to clean out meat stuck at the bottom.
People v. Golden State Foods, No. 31386211 (June 11, 1985) (prosecution for violation of California lockout requirements intended to prevent machine operation during cleaning, which resulted in death of an individual who was caught in a meat grinder).
Golden State Foods Corp was a case where a machine operator was fatally crushed by a robotic palletizer. Golden State Foods pled guilty to one criminal violation under Labor Code 6425, and they were required to make equipment safe, pay a $250,000 restitution, and a fine of $450,000 The responsible manager was convicted of a misdemeanor and was placed on a one-year probation with a requirement to pay the victim's family $10,000.
Golden State Foods Corp. is one of the largest and longest-serving suppliers to McDonald's,
Golden State Foods was ordered to pay $2 million in fines, penalties and restitution after pleading guilty to a felony violation of machinery lockout regulations that resulted in the robotic crushing death of a female employee in 2009. The company was required to establish a $125,000 college trust fund for the victim's young daughter.
he slipped and fell into a heavy-duty meat grinder in the City of Industry. Samuel Vasquez, 22, died instantly in the whirling blades
Vasquez was working inside a meat blender big enough to turn four or five sides of beef into hamburger at one time. He was cleaning the cutting blade, a circular ribbon of steel more than six feet long. Vasquez had just begun scrubbing when a co-worker, thinking the blender was empty, flipped a switch and turned it on. Vasquez's employer, Golden State Foods of Los Angeles, eventually pleaded no content to a criminal charge of violating a state job-safety standard.
Samuel Vasquez, 22, of West Covina was killed about 1 a.m. at the Golden State Foods Corp. plant, said Los Angeles County sheriffs Sgt. Steve Finley.
Health officials allowed the company's plant to reopen within 24 hours once it updated its reports.
Golden State Foods Corp was a case where a machine operator was fatally crushed by a robotic palletizer. Golden State Foods pled guilty to one criminal violation under Labor Code 6425, and they were required to make equipment safe, pay a $250,000 restitution, and a fine of $450,000 The responsible manager was convicted of a misdemeanor and was placed on a one-year probation with a requirement to pay the victim's family $10,000.
