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UPDATE: Brookshire Grocery Company plans to contest OSHA citations

The grocery chain says 22-year-old Kaspar Hollard was killed in the first deadly warehouse accident in the company's history.
Credit: Brookshire's Grocery

TYLER, Texas — A man was killed following an accident at the Brookshire's warehouse in Tyler back in March. 

The grocery chain says 22-year-old Kaspar Hollard was killed in the first deadly warehouse accident in the company's history.

The OSHA investigation into the accident remains ongoing. 

Brookshire Grocery Company released a statement Wednesday afternoon:

The safety of our employees and customers is of upmost importance to Brookshire Grocery Company. We were deeply saddened by the loss of a valued employee following an incident in a Tyler warehouse in March. BGC has extensive preventative processes and procedures in place to ensure the safety of our employees and has safely operated our warehouse facilities for close to 70 years. This is the only occurrence of an on-the-job injury of this severity in the BGC warehouses in all of our years of operation. We notified and fully cooperated with the authorities in the investigation of this incident. The investigation by the Tyler Police found that the employee in question was not following Company policies and procedures, which resulted in the incident. We are contesting the two OSHA citations and will provide evidence supporting our request to withdraw or modify the citations. Brookshire Grocery Company will continue our commitment to providing a safe work environment for our warehouse employees as evidenced by the seven decades of operations without an accident of this nature.

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