Plant Fined After Man Loses Both Arms

Lee Coleman

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$88,500.00 is what a Jefferson County company is being fined after an accident in January left an employee without both arms. The company Six Sigma Incorporated of Jeffersontown has 15 days to appeal to the Kentucky Department of Labor. Employees according to state law can sue employers for a workplace injury if they can prove the company intended for them to be harmed. Six Sigma was found to have committed a serious willful violation when it asked the employee to clean out a shredder with a screwdriver without procedures for locking out electricity to the equipment while they were under repair. It also found that in addition to the employee that was critically injured it also put 30 others at risk.