Prosecutors in Minnesota have charged owners of a cheese factory with murder, manslaughter and willful violation of employer duty in connection with an employee fatality in 1995. At the time of the accident, Jeffrey Steffenhagen, 33, was cutting blocks of cheese and feeding them into a grinder when he reportedly fell from a greasy pallet. Prosecutors alleged that the grinder did not have a proper shield to protect workers.In 1996, the state's Occupational Safety and Health Division prop
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