Macy’s Corporate Services pleaded no contest Aug. 11 to a corporate criminal liability charge over the 2009 decapitation of a worker in East Los Angeles (People v. Macy’s Corporate Servs.plea entered).
The company will pay $950,000 during an Aug. 15, 2015, sentencing hearing as part of a negotiated settlement stemming from the death of Roy Polanco, according to a statement released by Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey Aug. 12.
The 65-year-old worker fell into an unguarded opening on a cardboard baling and compacting machine at a Macy’s distribution center, according to the statement.
The state had ...
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