A Clarksburg Apple Juice Producer has been fined 75 thousand dollars as a result of an industrial accident that occurred in May of 2008.
The Clarksburg-based Golden Town Apple Products was fined March 12th for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Back in 2008, a worker at the company’s plant was flushing a production line with a sodium hydroxide solution.
The worker carried a pail of the solution toward a tank to be cleaned.
While lifting the pail to dump the solution into the tank, the worker’s hand slipped, the pail swung forward and the solution splashed into the worker’s eyes, causing permanent eye damage.
Golden Town Apple Products pleaded guilty under the OHSA of failing to protect the worker’s safety.