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Chloe Taylor

M&M’s maker fined after 2 Pennsylvania factory workers fell into a chocolate tank and sparked a rescue operation

A packet of peanut M&M's seen almost completely buried in the candies. (Credit: Joe Raedle—Getty Images)

The maker of some of America’s best-loved candies has been fined thousands of dollars after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate at its factory in Elizabethtown, Pa.

In June 2022, first responders were called to the Mars Wrigley facility and found two workers trapped in a tank full of chocolate that had been destined to become Dove bars, local media reported at the time.

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