Candy concerns | Lack of health and safety lands Mars Wrigley in a sticky situation

Chocolate giant, The Mars Wrigley company, found itself in a sticky situation this week, following a peculiar incident at one of its sites.

The firm came under fire from US workplace safety regulators, following a 2022 incident at the corporation’s factory in Pennsylvania in which workers were put at risk by poor health and safety.

The event, which took place in June of 2022, resulted in several contract workers sustaining injuries after falling into a large vat of molten chocolate. To save the workers, a hole had to be forcibly created in the bottom of the vat to drain much of the tank’s contents.

Whilst falling into a vat of chocolate may seem like a sweet-toothed worker’s dream, the workers were seriously hurt, with one having to be airlifted to hospital via helicopter.