It is front-page fare:
"Tribe’s owner, Israeli-based Tivall 1993 Ltd..... Tivall 1993 Ltd. is a subsidiary of OSEM Investments Ltd., one of the largest food companies in Israel. Last year, it made $109 million in profit on $1.2 billion in revenue. The majority owner of OSEM Investments is the Swiss food products conglomerate Nestle SA, which earned $10 billion in profit last year on sales on $92 billion."
(Blog editor begins digging into BG breakfast)
"Company ‘willfully ignored’ safety standards in worker’s death" by Megan Woolhouse and Michael Grabell | Globe Staff | ProPublica May 22, 2014
Daniel Collazo was nearly done with his shift cleaning machines at the Tribe hummus plant in Taunton when other workers heard his screams.
Collazo had become caught in the rotating screws that blend the hummus and struggled to free himself as slowly-winding 9-inch blades kept turning, crushing his arms and part of his head, according to public records. His co-workers dashed to cut the power and desperately tried to untangle Collazo from the machine.
Despite their efforts, Collazo, 28, died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. But the horrific Dec. 16, 2011, accident could have been prevented if the plant had followed a standard safety practice known as “lock out/tag out.” It requires employees to be trained to cut power to industrial machinery before cleaning activities begin.
Two years before Collazo was killed, federal officials fined the owner of the Tribe plant for failing to follow the safety procedure at another of its New England food processing plants. Tribe’s own consultant had warned that failing to train cleaning workers in lock out/tag out created “an extreme safety risk,” records show, and said “the probability that a fatality could occur is likely certain within a year’s timeframe.”
Tribe paid a $540,000 fine to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration following Collazo’s death, one of the biggest fines in New England in at least a decade, according to a review of agency fines.
But details of the events that led to Collazo’s death highlight the limits of OSHA penalties, particularly because the fines it levies often are much less expensive than required safety improvements. Those details were made public only recently by OSHA.
A Tribe spokesman said the company conducted an internal investigation after Collazo’s death and made changes “to prevent an accident like this from ever happening again.”
And the company has passed all safety inspections following Collazo’s death, OSHA officials said. But Edmund Fitzgerald, a spokesman for OSHA, said, “It should not take an OSHA inspection and large penalties and, most of all, the needless loss of a worker’s life, to compel an employer to adhere to workplace safety and health standards.”
Tribe’s owner, Israeli-based Tivall 1993 Ltd., paid $9,500 in fines for the lock out/tag out and other violations in 2009. After Collazo’s death, managers at the Taunton plant told OSHA investigators that they did not have the time or money to update Tribe’s lock out/tag out procedures, according to the records.
That has to be one of the lamest excuses I've ever seen! I've worked manufacturing, and it's an hour class, a hands-on practice session, and you are good to go! You have the clip, the lock, the key, and you know where is the power switch.
Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, executive director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, a workers’ advocacy group, said some employers view the risk of workplace-safety penalties as “just a cost of doing business.”
“We know there are employers out there doing this cost-benefit analysis,” Goldstein-Gelb said. “If you’re having an employee do life-threatening work, risking being killed, to not ensure that essential life-saving measures are in place is effectively negligent. And it is reckless and unconscionable.”
I'm filled with the same feeling I had a few days ago (down the memory hole of the BG mind) regarding the ca$ual di$regard for human life.
Tivall 1993 Ltd. is a subsidiary of OSEM Investments Ltd., one of the largest food companies in Israel. Last year, it made $109 million in profit on $1.2 billion in revenue.
The majority owner of OSEM Investments is the Swiss food products conglomerate Nestle SA, which earned $10 billion in profit last year on sales on $92 billion.
OSEM said in OSHA interviews it was unaware of the safety deficiencies at Tribe. And a spokeswoman for Nestle in Switzerland referred questions to a Nestle USA vice president who did not respond to requests for comment.
It's called pa$$ing the buck and giving the ma$$ media the run around.
Daniel Collazo got a job at the Tribe plant with the help of his older brother Gabriel, who also worked there. The Collazo brothers were part of a mostly Spanish-speaking cleaning crew that worked into the early morning five nights a week.
Meaning there is a good chance -- I'm not saying they are -- but there is a good chance they were ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
And point of fact, my position on that whole issue has nothing to do with this. A man was killed on the job; that's all that matters. A person is dead.
Gabriel Collazo, who had left his job at Tribe by the time of his brother’s death, said the augers his brother cleaned were often in operation because it made it easier to loosen and hose away caked hummus on the machine.
Maybe it is just me, or maybe it is the Zionist media manipulation and curriculum, but I was under the impression only Muslims and Arabs ate hummus.
Daniel Collazo had lived in Massachusetts just a few months at the time of his death and was earning $12 an hour at Tribe. Unemployed in Puerto Rico, he wanted to earn enough money to buy a house for his 5-year-old daughter, who still lived there.
Not bad bucks for 'roun' h're, and my previous query has been answered. He is a citizen thanks to another war started on false premises, the Spanish-AmeriKan war -- AmeriKa's first footprints of empire outside the hemisphere after the Monroe Doctrine told Europe to stay out of this one!
“They waited for something bad to happen,” Collazo said of his former employer. “They just use people like us — take advantage of us. They just throw you in there and it’s like, what happens, happens.”
That's government and big bu$ine$$ for you.
Factory manager Erez Ingber, who was on the job only about a month at the time of Collazo’s death, told OSHA investigators plans were underway to hire an engineer who would address safety issues, but it had not yet happened.
OSHA inspectors and police investigators could not determine exactly what Collazo was doing when he died. He could have been cleaning the machine, retrieving a scrubber that had fallen between its blades, or simply slipped into the uncovered machine’s blades, they said in reports. The floor was slick with chickpea paste and soap.
OSHA cited Tribe for 18 violations, imposing the most serious level of penalties because the company had “willfully ignored” three industry safety standards, according to the records. Those standards included “lock out/tag out,” which requires employers to adopt procedures and conduct training to ensure that employees power down major machinery during cleaning and maintenance.
That sounds serious to me! Hard to call it an "accident" as they did above.
OSHA’s report concluded that Tribe “was aware of deficiencies with its lock out/tag out program for almost two years and made a conscious decision not to abate those deficiencies” because it cost too much. Managers of Tribe’s owner, Tivall, and its Israeli parent, OSEM, toured the Taunton plant several times a year to prioritize projects, including safety measures, according to OSHA reports.
:-(
Then they were aware of the problems?!
In 2009, two years before Collazo’s death, Tivall was cited and fined for inadequate “lock out/tag out” procedures and training, as well as other violations, at a food processing plant in New Haven. Tivall shuttered the New Haven plant in 2010, moving several employees to the Tribe factory in Taunton. Among them was Tribe’s eventual chief financial officer and top official at the company because it had been without a chief executive.
Tribe’s safety committee had compiled a “to do” list that included “lock out/tag out” training, but the plant had made little progress toward that goal by the time of Collazo’s death, OSHA investigators found. In 2010, Tribe hired a consultant, who warned that if safety improvements were not made quickly, a workplace death was “likely certain” within a year.
Collazo died a year and a half later and just six months after he started working at the company.
Since Collazo’s death, Tribe has hired a new chief executive, Adam Carr, who has sought to increase the company’s visibility. Tribe finished paying its OSHA fines in April and has embarked on a new marketing campaign: “Hummus made with love and chickpeas.”
I can't imagine he wanted it this way.
In Fall River, Gabriel Collazo, 33, found a new job in construction and landscaping, vowing to never return to factory work.
I once said that, and now I would be grateful to my grave were they to give me one.
He still keeps Daniel’s belongings in boxes in his bedroom, occasionally wearing his brother’s Nautica cologne. Every few months, he adds new details to a tattoo of a cross emblazoned with his brother’s birth and death dates.
“Every day I think of him,” he said. “He’s with me.”
Yeah. That is what is usually forgotten. For some people, that person no longer being there never goes away. And now you know why you get the commentary you do here, be it bu$ine$$, wars, tyranny, whatever. It's a pro-life blog, whatever that means.
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I don't think I will be buying hummus anytime soon.
Related: How to Destroy a U.S. Town
All of $udden the immigration and agenda-pu$hing, Zionist-controlled media in$titutions have merged in my mind.
And we all know a meal tastes best when it's sweet and tender (ugh):
"Dozens charged in child porn case in NYC area" by Tom Hays | Associated Press May 22, 2014
NEW YORK — Seemingly respectable members of the mainstream — a police officer, a paramedic, a rabbi, an airline pilot, an architect, a Boy Scout leader — were caught using the Internet to collect and trade child pornography, federal officials said Wednesday.
I actually believe them in this case.
Related: Sharon Rabbi Was Set Up
Maybe these guys were, too?
The six were among 70 New York City-area men and one woman charged as the result of a five-week investigation by the Homeland Security Investigations arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
This is what they should be doing.
Some of the defendants, using search terms like ‘‘real child rape’’ and ‘‘family sex,’’ had downloaded thousands of disturbing images on their computers inside suburban homes they shared with their families.
The lone woman was accused of allowing another suspect to videotape her son.
I don't wanna see anymore of this, please, turn it off. I can't... I don't.... How does.... it's the proving the privilege and power of eliti$m, isn't it? All these people from the political and above cla$$ a bunch of perverts as they moralize to the rest of us and need to crawl up our asses.
Federal and state officials who announced the arrests on Wednesday called it one of the largest local roundups ever of people who seek to anonymously share the porn online — and a stark reminder that they come from all walks of life.
I didn't need the "reminder," but if this is some attempt to ferret out anonymity and tar that commentary.... SIGH!
I get enough pornography off the newsstand in the form of the Boston Globe, and can't even keep up with it, so.... other than the handful of truth-telling blogs I like checking there is nothing here but mistyped searches for BG articles and a few others for ma$$ media links. NSA knows anyway. There is a whole record of the stuff since 2006 -- which is when I began this fool's errand.
‘‘This operation puts the lie to the classic, stereotypical profile that child predators are nothing more than unemployed drifters,’’ said James Hayes, head of the customs agency’s New York office.
Who believed in that stereotype? Who promoted that? The sick and perverted elite that are responsible for the papers, that's who!
Authorities say an alarming number of the defendants held positions of trust that gave them access to young children.
And THERE YOU GO! The alleged do-gooders are the worst! That's there IN, the sick f***s.
The Boy Scout leader also coached a youth baseball team.
No.
The rabbi home-schooled his children and others.
I will bet he is left alone by the authorities, as opposed to conservative subversives and other recalcitrant Americans.
Another person used hidden cameras to secretly film his children’s friends.
Hey, government does it.... and while on that take, the monitors at NSA and the rest (contractors, state and local agencies), can see the stuff!
The operation was meant to send a message to producers and consumers of child porn ‘‘that they are going to be identified, that they are going to be found,’’ Hayes said. ‘‘Those people need to look themselves in the mirror and do whatever they need to do to stop this activity.’’
Authorities say advances in technology and computer capacity have allowed child-porn collectors to easily amass vast troves of images and to exchange files with each other directly. The New York effort resulted in the seizure of nearly 600 desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smartphones, and other devices containing massive amounts of storage.
All I have are over 30,000 dumpy blog posts to show for my efforts. Sorry.
Agents were still examining the devices to locate and catalog evidence, an arduous task that could result in more arrests.
I will be looking for the follow-ups!
Some trials get loads of coverage and attention; others, not so much.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children also will have analysts review the images to see whether it can identify children using databases of known victims.
‘‘We refer to each of these images as a crime scene photo because that’s exactly what they are,’’ said John Ryan, the organization’s chief executive officer.
Authorities decided to launch the operation after the arrest in January of the Mount Pleasant, N.Y, police chief, who pleaded not guilty this week to federal charges of knowingly receiving and distributing child pornography.
Court papers allege that Brian Fanelli told investigators he began looking at child porn as research before it grew into a ‘‘personal interest.’’
In May, agents on computers created a digital dragnet with the same tactics used in the Fanelli case: Agents posed as collectors of child porn who wanted to anonymously trade it through file-sharing programs others use to share pirated hit music and movies.
Once given access to personal libraries of child porn photos and videos, the agents identified the numeric IP addresses of the sources of the material.
The next step was to subpoena Internet service providers to obtain names associated with the IP addresses.
The investigators narrowed the list down to 100 people who were the most active and recent traders, and obtained search and arrest warrants.
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I'm all fulled up. Next post.
UPDATE:
"A Marshfield man accused of raping a teenage girl earlier this month is a “dangerous sexual predator,” according to police, and they are asking anyone who has had an encounter with the 49-year-old to come forward."
