Mars Wrigley fined after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate in workplace safety incident

• OSHA has handed Mars Wrigley a five-figure fine for a June incident at a Pennsylvania confectionary factory.
• Officials say two workers fell into a tank of chocolate while doing maintenance work.
• The pair had to be rescued by emergency responders and taken to a hospital, reports say.

A Pennsylvania confectionary factory is being fined more than $14,500 over a 2022 incident that involved two workers falling into a vat of chocolate.

According the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the two contract workers at an M&M/Mars factory in Elizabethtown were neither authorized nor trained to work in tanks. OSHA is holding Mars Wrigley responsible for the incident, the Associated Press reported.