Allen Family Foods gets $1 million fine for safety violations
The Baltimore Sun reports that the state inspectors found 51 violations at the company’s Hurlock processing plant while investigating a December incident in which a worker was seriously injured. Allen Family Foods announced last week that it was selling the Hurlock plant to Amick Family Farms LLC.
Labor and Industry Commissioner Ron DeJuliis said the state imposed such a high fine because the 90-year-old Seaford, Del., producer has racked up nearly 200 violations in the past dozen years, but has made little headway in correcting problems.