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An accident at a Mars confectionery site has financial consequences.
According to the US agency responsible for occupational safety, the group should pay 14,502 US dollars.
The background is, among other things, an accident last June.
Two employees from a third-party company fell into a huge chocolate tank while cleaning a factory in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
According to local newspaper The Patriot News, the tank was partially full.
Rescue workers cut a hole in the tank to free the two people.
They were taken to a hospital, one by helicopter.
However, the workers reportedly suffered no serious injuries.
The US health authority OSHA said those affected were not allowed to work on the tanks.
They were neither properly trained nor did they have the right equipment for the job.
The authority called the violations of labor law "serious".
The official statement does not explain how the accident happened.
Produced by Dove and M&M's
Mars said the safety of third-party employees is a high priority.
Appreciate OSHA's "collaborative approach."
At the location in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, the group produces, among other things, the chocolate drops M&M's and Dove chocolate.
It belongs to the Mars Wrigley Confectionery, which is part of the Mars Group.
Mars acquired chewing gum maker Wrigley in 2008 for $23 billion.
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