Ronald Adams Sr., a 63-year-old machine repairman, was crushed to death on April 7, 2025, at Stellantis’ Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan. According to initial reports, he was killed in the early morning hours while servicing a Cinetic Washer in Department 7300, when an overhead gantry crane unexpectedly engaged, pinning him and fatally crushing his upper torso.
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) has initiated an independent investigation—led by rank-and-file workers—into this entirely preventable death in America’s “Industrial Slaughterhouse.”
Approximately 100 workers and youth attended the hearing, which was addressed by members of the IWA-RFC and Shamenia Stewart-Adams, the widow of Ronald Adams, Sr.
The sole reason for continued industrial slaughter, year after year, is the capitalist system. It has become an absolute barrier to human progress.
Adams’ death is part of a continuing pattern of preventable workplace tragedies in which workers’ lives are sacrificed for the sake of profit.
The World Socialist Web Site is reposting an article by David North written in 1973 on the death of Rick Hertzig, a steelworker who was horrifically killed on the job at a US Steel mill in Lorain, Ohio.
Like their counterparts in North America, Italian Stellantis workers are facing a relentless attack on jobs and working conditions, which have led to workplace fatalities like the February 2024 death of Dominico Fatigati, a 52-year-old machine maintenance worker.
Monday marked 11 weeks since the fatal accident that took the life of the 63-year-old machine repairman.
Monday marked eight weeks since the death of the 63-year-old machine repairman at the Dundee Engine Complex in Michigan.
Adams’ co-workers have voiced serious concerns that critical safety measures, including lockout/tagout procedures, may have been bypassed to get the retooled plant up and running as soon as possible.
The veteran worker was in the hospital for two weeks following an incident at work, the circumstances of which have not been explained by either management or the United Auto Workers.
According to his family, Brayan had only months prior immigrated to the US from Guatemala, “in hopes of supporting his mother and siblings.”
In the face of a total coverup by Tyson, complete silence from the United Food and Commercial Workers union, and a wall of state obstruction, Allison has received critical information and support from one crucial source: Casen’s coworkers.
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.
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