Apr 10, 2023
Darling Pet Food Maker Defends Safety Record in Fatality Case
Darling Ingredients Inc. asked federal appeals court judges to rule that the
Darling Ingredients Inc. asked federal appeals court judges to rule that the company's safety procedures at a Mississippi animal feed plant were adequate despite the death of two maintenance workers.
The Irving, Texas-based supplier of food and animal feed ingredients is challenging an OSHA citation and proposed $75,092 fine for allegedly having inadequate instructions on how to maintain an industrial-scale pressure cooker that fatally burned the workers in August 2020.
In oral arguments Wednesday at the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, Darling attorney Juliana Gaige of Jackson Lewis PC said the Occupational Safety and ...
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