Vertis Plant Socked with $60K Fine After Injury

ST. CATHARINES, ONT—American Color Graphics, an affiliate of Baltimore-based Vertis Communications, was fined $60,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a young worker was injured.

On Aug. 24, 2010, at the company's facility in Stevensville, Canada, there was a jam in a printing press. Workers shut down the press and engaged a safe button to prevent the machine from restarting as they looked for the jam.